How to Install flake8 software package in Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak)

How to Install flake8 software package in Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak)

flake8 software package provides code checker using pycodestyle and pyflakes, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) by running the commands given below on the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install flake8 

flake8 is installed in your system.

Make ensure the flake8 package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep flake8 *

You will get with flake8 package name, version, architecture and description in a table

flake8 package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak
Section Python
Package flake8
Version 3.0.4+dfsg1-1
Description code checker using pycodestyle and pyflakes
Sub Section python


See Also, How to uninstall or remove flake8 software package from Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak)?