How To Install eric on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install eric on Ubuntu.

What is `eric`

eric is:

eric is a full featured Python IDE written in PyQt using the QScintilla editor widget. Some highlights

Any number of editors with configurable syntax highlighting, code folding, auto indenting and brace highlighting.
Integrated Project Management facility to organize your projects. The project browser shows all source files, all forms and all translations each on its own tab. The source browser has built in class browsing capabilities.
Integrated and full featured debuggers for Python and Ruby.
Interactive shells for Python and Ruby.
An explorer window for walking through your directory structure with built in class browsing capabilities for Python files.
Variable windows that display local and global variables in the current scope while debugging a program.
An integrated interface to the Python Module “unittest”.
An integrated help viewer to display HTML help files. Alternatively you can choose to use Qt-Assistant to view help files.
Display of the UI in different languages.
The capability to start Qt-Designer and Qt-Linguist from within eric5.
The ability to compile Qt-Designer forms, to produce Qt-Linguist files and release them from within the IDE.

There are three methods to install eric on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install eric Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install eric

Install eric Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install eric using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install eric

Install eric 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 eric using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install eric

How To Uninstall eric on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the eric package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove eric

Uninstall eric And Its Dependencies

To uninstall eric and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove eric

Remove eric Configurations and Data

To remove eric configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge eric

Remove eric configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge eric

Dependencies

eric have the following dependencies:

References

eric website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install eric package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.