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Installation of Spyder 3.0.1 on Ubuntu 16.04

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Description of your problem

How can I install the latest version of Spyder under Ubuntu 16.04?

What steps will reproduce the problem?

The current version of Spyder from the official ubuntu sources is 2.3.8 which is outdated since meanwhile version 3.0.1 exists.

In the Linux installation instructions it is referred to the latest debian package if the Ubuntu package is outdated which is not working in my case.

What’s the easiest way to install the newest version of Spyder on Ubuntu 16.04?

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

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Versions and main components

Spyder Version: 2.3.8
Python Version: 3.5
Operating system: Ubuntu 16.04 64 Bit

Dependencies

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Issue Analytics

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:13 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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ccordoba12commented, Nov 9, 2016

You can run

pip install -U --user spyder

or install the Anaconda Python distribution (which comes with Spyder, among a bunch of other packages).

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ccordoba12commented, Jan 23, 2017

Anaconda is going to support Qt 5.6 during this year and probably the next one.

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