How To Install python3-spyder on Debian 12

Learn how to install python3-spyder on Debian 12 with this tutorial. python3-spyder is Richly-featured Python IDE - Python modules

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-spyder on Debian 12.

What is python3-spyder

python3-spyder is:

Spyder is a powerful interactive development environment for Python providing many features and facilities, including advanced editing facilities (including tooltips and completion facilities), issue highlighting, interactive testing, debugging and introspection facilities, an embedded console (IPython) supporting graphics and much more.

This package provides the Python 3 modules for Spyder. For the desktop application itself, you will need to install the “spyder” package.

There are three methods to install python3-spyder on Debian 12. 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-spyder 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-spyder using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-spyder

Install python3-spyder Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-spyder using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-spyder

Install python3-spyder 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 python3-spyder using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-spyder

How To Uninstall python3-spyder on Debian 12

To uninstall only the python3-spyder package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-spyder

Uninstall python3-spyder And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-spyder and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-spyder

Remove python3-spyder Configurations and Data

To remove python3-spyder configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-spyder

Remove python3-spyder configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-spyder configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-spyder

Dependencies

python3-spyder have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-spyder package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.