How to Install and Uninstall python-kivy Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: December 29,2024

1. Install "python-kivy" package

This guide let you learn how to install python-kivy on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                python-kivy
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "python-kivy" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall python-kivy on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the python-kivy package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: python-kivy
Priority: extra
Section: universe/python
Installed-Size: 8084
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Python Modules Team
Architecture: amd64
Source: kivy
Version: 1.9.0-3build1
Depends: python-gst-1.0, python-pygame, python (<< 2.8), python (>= 2.7~), python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~), libc6 (>= 2.14), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgstreamer1.0-0 (>= 1.0.0), libsdl2-2.0-0 (>= 2.0.0), libsdl2-image-2.0-0 (>= 2.0.0), libsdl2-mixer-2.0-0 (>= 2.0.0), libsdl2-ttf-2.0-0 (>= 2.0.0)
Filename: pool/universe/k/kivy/python-kivy_1.9.0-3build1_amd64.deb
Size: 2152900
MD5sum: d6803a4f4c8feccb5892640d89597a89
SHA1: 1484cb8b8248d00e7d4d40317c227088bfd66168
SHA256: 4e8524a893d63fe658cd92d9322dd7c485da82a00dcfc580c8ad6be1a6baf995
Description-en: Kivy - Multimedia / Multitouch framework in Python (Python 2)
Kivy is an open source library for developing multi-touch applications. It is
completely cross platform (Linux/OSX/Win/Android) and released under the terms
of the MIT license.
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It comes with native support for many multi-touch input devices, a growing
library of multi-touch aware widgets, hardware accelerated OpenGL drawing, and
an architecture that is designed to let you focus on building custom and highly
interactive applications as quickly and easily as possible.
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Kivy is a mixed Python library with Cython code, to take advantage of its
highly dynamic nature and use any of the thousands of high quality and open
source Python libraries out there, with the speed of C code.
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This package contains the Python 2 compatible version of the library.
Description-md5: 415eeb79183cec31a1e8011201eaed91
Homepage: http://kivy.org
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu