How To Install python-sip-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-sip-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is python-sip-dev
python-sip-dev is:
SIP is a tool for generating bindings for C++ classes with some ideas borrowed from SWIG, but capable of tighter bindings because of its specificity towards C++ and Python.
SIP was originally designed to generate Python bindings for KDE and so has explicit support for the signal slot mechanism used by the Qt/KDE class libraries.
Features: - connecting Qt signals to Python functions and class methods - connecting Python signals to Qt slots - overloading virtual member functions with Python class methods - protected member functions - abstract classes - enumerated types - global class instances - static member functions.
This package contains sipdistutils and the development headers needed to develop Python bindings with sip.
There are three methods to install python-sip-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-sip-dev 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-sip-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-sip-dev
Install python-sip-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-sip-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-sip-dev
Install python-sip-dev 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-sip-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-sip-dev
How To Uninstall python-sip-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the python-sip-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-sip-dev
Uninstall python-sip-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-sip-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-sip-dev
Remove python-sip-dev Configurations and Data
To remove python-sip-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-sip-dev
Remove python-sip-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-sip-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-sip-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-sip-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.