How to install pylint in Linux?

How to install pylint in Linux?

Pylint is a tool that checks for errors in Python code, tries to enforce a coding standard and looks for code smells. It can also look for certain type errors, it can recommend suggestions about how particular blocks can be refactored and can offer you details about the code's complexity.

Let's See how to install pylint.

Ubuntu/Debian

Step 1 :
Upgrade the package.

upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in /etc/apt/sources.list. 

root@c1b70902da09:/# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  curl libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Step 2:
Install the pylint now.

root@c1b70902da09:/# apt-get install pylint
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  blt libtcl8.6 libtk8.6 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxcb1 libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxft2 libxrender1 libxss1 python-astroid
  python-backports.functools-lru-cache python-isort python-lazy-object-proxy python-tk python-wrapt tk8.6-blt2.5 x11-common
Suggested packages:
  blt-demo tcl8.6 tk8.6 pylint-doc python-mccabe tix python-tk-dbg

Fedora

dnf install pylint

openSUSE

zypper install pylint  # python2.7
zypper install python3-pylint

FreeBSD

portmaster devel/pylint

OS X

pip install pylint

From source

git clone https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint
git clone https://github.com/PyCQA/astroid

Arch Linux

pacman -S python-pylint

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