How To Install radon 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 radon on Ubuntu.
What is radon
radon is:
Radon is a Python tool which computes various code metrics. Supported metrics are:
raw metrics: SLOC, comment lines, blank lines, &c. Cyclomatic Complexity (i.e. McCabe’s Complexity) Halstead metrics (all of them) the Maintainability Index (a Visual Studio metric)
Radon can be used either from the command line or programmatically through its API.
There are three methods to install radon 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 radon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install radon using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install radon
Install radon Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install radon using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install radon
Install radon 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 radon using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install radon
How To Uninstall radon on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the radon package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove radon
Uninstall radon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall radon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove radon
Remove radon Configurations and Data
To remove radon configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge radon
Remove radon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove radon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge radon
Dependencies
radon have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install radon package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.