How To Install python3-kivy on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-kivy on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python3-kivy
python3-kivy is:
Kivy is an open source library for developing multi-touch applications. It is completely cross platform (Linux/OSX/Win/Android) and released under the terms of the MIT license.
It comes with native support for many multi-touch input devices, a growing library of multi-touch aware widgets, hardware accelerated OpenGL drawing, and an architecture that is designed to let you focus on building custom and highly interactive applications as quickly and easily as possible.
Kivy is a mixed Python library with Cython code, to take advantage of its highly dynamic nature and use any of the thousands of high quality and open source Python libraries out there, with the speed of C code.
This package contains the Python 3 compatible version of the library.
There are three methods to install python3-kivy 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 python3-kivy Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-kivy using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-kivy
Install python3-kivy Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-kivy using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-kivy
Install python3-kivy 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 python3-kivy using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-kivy
How To Uninstall python3-kivy on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python3-kivy package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-kivy
Uninstall python3-kivy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-kivy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-kivy
Remove python3-kivy Configurations and Data
To remove python3-kivy configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-kivy
Remove python3-kivy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-kivy configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-kivy
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-kivy package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
