How To Install python3-webview on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-webview
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is python3-webview
python3-webview is:
pywebview is a lightweight cross-platform wrapper around a webview component that allows on to display HTML content in its own native GUI window. It gives you power of web technologies in your desktop application, hiding the fact that GUI is browser based. You can use pywebview either with a lightweight web framework like Flask or Bottle or on its own with a two way bridge between Python and DOM.
pywebview uses native GUI for creating a web component window: WinForms on Windows, Cocoa on macOS and QT or GTK+ on Linux. If you choose to freeze your application, pywebview does not bundle a heavy GUI toolkit or web renderer with it keeping the executable size small. pywebview is compatible with both Python 2 and 3.
There are three methods to install python3-webview
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-webview 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-webview
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-webview
Install python3-webview Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-webview
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-webview
Install python3-webview 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-webview
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-webview
How To Uninstall python3-webview on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the python3-webview
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-webview
Uninstall python3-webview And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-webview
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-webview
Remove python3-webview Configurations and Data
To remove python3-webview
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-webview
Remove python3-webview configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-webview
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-webview
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-webview
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.