How To Install python3-knitpy on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-knitpy
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is python3-knitpy
python3-knitpy is:
Knitpy is an elegant, flexible and fast dynamic report generation with Python 3. It is a port of knitr and rmarkdown to Python and is used to convert pymd documents (*.pymd) to various other formats.
Codeblocks and inline code are executed via IPython kernels and the results are inserted into the document. Documents should follow rmarkdown syntax substituting ‘python’ for ‘r’ if python code should be executed.
Features:
- Code blocks and inline code.
- Plots are shown inline.
- Output formats html, pdf and docx.
- Code chunk arguments eval, results (apart form “hold”), include and echo
- Errors in code chunks are shown in the document.
- Uses the IPython display framework, so rich output for objects implementing repr_html() or repr_markdown(). Mimetypes not understood by the final output format are automatically converted via pandoc.
- Can be imported and used from Python.
- Supports a –debug mode.
There are three methods to install python3-knitpy
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 python3-knitpy 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-knitpy
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-knitpy
Install python3-knitpy Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-knitpy
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-knitpy
Install python3-knitpy 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-knitpy
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-knitpy
How To Uninstall python3-knitpy on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the python3-knitpy
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-knitpy
Uninstall python3-knitpy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-knitpy
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-knitpy
Remove python3-knitpy Configurations and Data
To remove python3-knitpy
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-knitpy
Remove python3-knitpy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-knitpy
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-knitpy
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-knitpy
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.