How To Install python-notebook on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-notebook on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-notebook is Jupyter interactive notebook (Python 2)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-notebook on Debian 10.

What is python-notebook

python-notebook is:

The Jupyter Notebook is a web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations, and explanatory text. The Notebook has support for multiple programming languages, sharing, and interactive widgets.

This package contains the Python 2 library.

This package is not required to run Python 2 code in the notebook, only to allow Python 2 code to interact directly with the notebook server.

There are three methods to install python-notebook on Debian 10. 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-notebook 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-notebook using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python-notebook

Install python-notebook Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-notebook

Install python-notebook 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-notebook

How To Uninstall python-notebook on Debian 10

To uninstall only the python-notebook package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-notebook

Uninstall python-notebook And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-notebook and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-notebook

Remove python-notebook Configurations and Data

To remove python-notebook configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-notebook

Remove python-notebook configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-notebook

Dependencies

python-notebook have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-notebook package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.