HOW TO INSTALL DRPYTHON PYTHON TEXT EDITOR IN UBUNTU 16.04 – A BEST PYTHON EDITOR FOR LINUX

Introduction

In this article we are going to learn How to install drpython python text editor in Ubuntu 16.04. Drpython is one of the best python editor and this application is mainly developed for python programmers and developers. Drpython text editor makes python programming easy and intresting. it’s an cross platform application available for major operating systems like Linux, Microsoft Windows, MacOS.

Drpython is a open source light weight application written in python programming language using wxPython toolkit comes with various features mentioned below :

• This application can be used as a python debugger.
• You can drag and drop all required texts & files in to the application.
• Supports printing of the contents.
• You can bookmark all your daily useable files & directories for quick access.
• Can highlight syntax of so many languages like C++, HTML, Python, HTML….etc..

For more information on Drpython Python text editor application you can visit the official website

Follow the below steps to install Drpython python text editor in Ubuntu 16.04 – A best python editor for Linux

Before we start the installation of Drpython editor application let’s update the packages & repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update   # Update the Packages & Repositories
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

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Now we are ready to install Drpython python text editor package. To install the application we don’t have to install any 3rd party PPA repository as it’s an part of default repository of Ubuntu 16.04. So to install the Drpython package refer the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install drpython   # Install Drpython Python text editor Package
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  bluefish-data bluefish-plugins ca-certificates-mono cli-common gnome-icon-theme libdbus-glib1.0-cil libdbus-glib2.0-cil libdbus1.0-cil libdbus2.0-cil libgconf2.0-cil
  libgdata2.1-cil libgdiplus libgkeyfile1.0-cil libglib2.0-cil libgtk-sharp-beans-cil libgtk2.0-cil libgudev1.0-cil libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 libmono-addins0.2-cil
  libmono-cairo4.0-cil libmono-corlib4.5-cil libmono-data-tds4.0-cil libmono-i18n-west4.0-cil libmono-i18n4.0-cil libmono-posix4.0-cil libmono-security4.0-cil
  libmono-sharpzip4.84-cil libmono-system-configuration4.0-cil libmono-system-core4.0-cil libmono-system-data4.0-cil libmono-system-drawing4.0-cil
  libmono-system-enterpriseservices4.0-cil libmono-system-numerics4.0-cil libmono-system-runtime-serialization4.0-cil libmono-system-security4.0-cil
  libmono-system-servicemodel-internals0.0-cil libmono-system-transactions4.0-cil libmono-system-xml-linq4.0-cil libmono-system-xml4.0-cil libmono-system4.0-cil
  libmono-zeroconf1.0-cil libnewtonsoft-json5.0-cil libnotify0.4-cil libqt4-designer libqt4-qt3support libtaglib2.1-cil libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 libwebkitgtk-1.0-common
  libwnck-common libwnck22 mono-4.0-gac mono-gac mono-runtime mono-runtime-common mono-runtime-sgen mplayer2
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libwxbase3.0-0v5 libwxgtk3.0-0v5 python-wxgtk3.0 python-wxversion
Suggested packages:
  python-doc wx3.0-doc python-tk
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  drpython libwxbase3.0-0v5 libwxgtk3.0-0v5 python-wxgtk3.0 python-wxversion
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 398 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 52.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y  ---> Enter "y" to continue the installation

As you can see above we have successfully installed the Drpython python editor package. To confirm the same refer the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l  drpython   # Confirm the installed Package
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                 Version                 Architecture            Description
+++-====================================-=======================-=======================-=============================================================================
ii  drpython                             1:3.11.4-1.1            all                     simple and customizable editor for the Python language

Now to open the application just type the command drpython on shell prompt. Refer the command below.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ drpython   # Open the Drpython Python text editor application

Package Version :

You can also open the application using Search your computer box. Refer the snapshot below.

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To uninstall the application you can use the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r  drpython   # Uninstall the Drpython python editor Package
(Reading database ... 183649 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing drpython (1:3.11.4-1.1) ...
Processing triggers for doc-base (0.10.7) ...
Processing 1 removed doc-base file...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...

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