How To Install flake8 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 flake8 on Ubuntu.
What is flake8
flake8 is:
Flake8 is a wrapper around PyFlakes, pycodestyle, and Ned’s McCabe script. Flake8 runs all tools by launching the single ‘flake8’ script, but ignores pycodestyle and PyFlakes extended options and just uses defaults. It displays the warnings in a per-file, merged output.
This package provides flake8 binary.
There are three methods to install flake8 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 flake8 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install flake8 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install flake8
Install flake8 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install flake8 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install flake8
Install flake8 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 flake8 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install flake8
How To Uninstall flake8 on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the flake8 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove flake8
Uninstall flake8 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall flake8 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove flake8
Remove flake8 Configurations and Data
To remove flake8 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge flake8
Remove flake8 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove flake8 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge flake8
Dependencies
flake8 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flake8 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.