How To Install python-editor on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-editor on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-editor
python-editor is:
python-editor is a library that provides the editor module for programmatically interfacing with your system’s $EDITOR. The user can then enter a commit message for example.
Editor first looks for the environment variable. If set, it uses the value as-is, without fallbacks. If no $EDITOR is set, editor will search through a list of known editors, and use the first one that exists on the system. For example, on Linux, editor will look for the following editors in order:
- vim
- emacs
- nano
When calling the edit() function, editor will open the editor in a subprocess, inheriting the parent process’s stdin, stdout
This package contains the Python 2.7 module.
There are three methods to install python-editor on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install python-editor Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python-editor using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-editor
Install python-editor Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-editor using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-editor
Install python-editor Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install python-editor using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-editor
How To Uninstall python-editor on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-editor package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-editor
Uninstall python-editor And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-editor and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-editor
Remove python-editor Configurations and Data
To remove python-editor configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-editor
Remove python-editor configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-editor configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-editor
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-editor package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
