How To Install python3-knitpy 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 python3-knitpy on Ubuntu.

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. 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

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, 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 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

Dependencies

python3-knitpy have the following dependencies:

References

python3-knitpy website

Summary

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