How to Install Python-pyscreenshot on Linux?

Python offers multiple libraries to ease our work. Here we’ll find out how to click a screenshot using Python. Python provides a package called pyscreenshot for this task. It is only a pure Python wrapper package, with a thin layer over existing back-ends. The performance and interactivity are not very much important for this library. In this article, we will learn how to install python-pyscreenshot on the Linux Operating System.

Features:

• It is a cross-platform wrapper
• It also captures the whole desktop
• It also captures an area
• It supports Python 2.6 and above versions.

Requirements:

• Python3
• Python3-pip

Installing a python-pyscreenshot package on Linux using PIP

To install the python-pyscreenshot package in Linux we have to follow the following steps:

Step 1: Install the latest version of Python3 on Linux Machine using the following command in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install python3

Step 2: Now, install the pip module which is required to install and manage all the packages of Python3 using the following command:

sudo apt install python3-pip

Step 3: Now, install the python-pyscreenshot package by using the following command:

sudo pip3 install pyscreenshot

Verifying python-pyscreenshot package installation on Linux using PIP

To verify if the python-pyscreenshot package has been successfully installed in your system run the below command in Terminal:

python3 -m pip show pyscreenshot

You’ll get the following output if the installation is completed successfully in your system.