How To Install pydocstyle on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pydocstyle on Kali Linux.

What is pydocstyle

pydocstyle is:

PEP-257 provides conventions for Python docstrings (string literals which occur as first statement in a module, function, class or method definition for documentation purposes). This tool checks Python code whether these conventions have been complied with, and if docstring are missing.

This is a successor of the application “pep257”.

This package installs the cli tool.

There are three methods to install pydocstyle on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install pydocstyle Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install pydocstyle using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install pydocstyle

Install pydocstyle Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install pydocstyle using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install pydocstyle

Install pydocstyle Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install pydocstyle using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pydocstyle

How To Uninstall pydocstyle on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the pydocstyle package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pydocstyle

Uninstall pydocstyle And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pydocstyle and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pydocstyle

Remove pydocstyle Configurations and Data

To remove pydocstyle configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pydocstyle

Remove pydocstyle configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove pydocstyle configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pydocstyle

Dependencies

pydocstyle have the following dependencies:

• python3

References

• pydocstyle website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pydocstyle package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.