How To Install python3-rich 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-rich on Ubuntu.
What is python3-rich
python3-rich is:
Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.
The Rich API makes it easy to add color and style to terminal output. Rich can also render pretty tables, progress bars, markdown, syntax highlighted source code, tracebacks, and more — out of the box.
Here’s a list of the core functionalities of rich:
- to effortlessly add rich output to your application, you can import the rich print method, which has the same signature as the builtin Python function
- Rich can be installed in the Python REPL, so that any data structures will be pretty printed and highlighted
- for more control over rich terminal content, import and construct a Console object. The Console object has a print method which has an intentionally similar interface to the builtin print function
- to insert an emoji in to console output place the name between two colons
- Rich can render flexible tables with unicode box characters. There is a large variety of formatting options for borders, styles, cell alignment etc
- Rich can render multiple flicker-free progress bars to track long-running tasks.
- Rich can render content in neat columns with equal or optimal width.
- Rich can render markdown and does a reasonable job of translating the formatting to the terminal
- Rich can render beautiful tracebacks which are easier to read and show more code than standard Python tracebacks. You can set Rich as the default traceback handler so all uncaught exceptions will be rendered by Rich.
There are three methods to install python3-rich 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-rich 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-rich using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-rich
Install python3-rich Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-rich using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-rich
Install python3-rich 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-rich using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-rich
How To Uninstall python3-rich on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the python3-rich package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-rich
Uninstall python3-rich And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-rich and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-rich
Remove python3-rich Configurations and Data
To remove python3-rich configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-rich
Remove python3-rich configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-rich configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-rich
Dependencies
python3-rich have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-rich package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.