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The stable version (3.1.3) in the Debian Stretch repository is kind of old (https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=spyder3).

So, I installed the 3.2.6 version via pip3 install spyder --user.

How can I run it? Tried: spyder, spyder3, python3-spyder python3 spyder. It was installed correctly and can be imported into an interactive shell.

Pierre B
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  • [Don't suffer from Shiny New Stuff Syndrome](https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Don.27t_suffer_from_Shiny_New_Stuff_Syndrome). If you really need newer stuff (hint: you probably don't actually **need** it), then add `APT::Default-Release "stable";` to an apt.conf file, then add the `unstable` repository to your sources.list and run `apt-get -t unstable install shinynewstuff`. The `-t unstable` overrides the default `stable` distribution. – cas Jan 18 '18 at 03:21
  • @cas: I'm normally quite happy with the stable version provided by apt. However, in this case it's different. There's a bug popping up that was corrected on the 3.1.4 version. – Pierre B Jan 19 '18 at 18:13
  • the packaged version in testing & unstable is 3.2.4+dfsg1-1, with packages for both python 3.6 (package name "sypder3") and python 2.7 ("spyder"). – cas Jan 20 '18 at 01:12

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For running the IDE after installing it through pip:

Find where it's installed with pip3 show spyder. It will be something like: .local/lib/python3.5/site-packages.

Go to the subdirectory spyder/app/, there you'll find start.py. Run it with python3 start.py.

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