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title: Install tqdm on Ubuntu using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of tqdm for on Ubuntu - A fast, extensible CLI
  progress bar
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/tqdm/ubuntu
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# Install tqdm on **Ubuntu**

# tqdm

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#### A fast, extensible CLI progress bar

<https://tqdm.github.io>

`tqdm` means "progress" in Arabic (taqadum, تقدّم) and is an
abbreviation for "I love you so much" in Spanish (te quiero demasiado).

Instantly make your loops show a smart progress meter and stats - just replace any pipe "`|`" with "`| tqdm |`", and you're done!

```
$ seq 9999999 | tqdm --bytes | wc -l
75.2MB [00:00, 217MB/s]
9999999
$ 7z a -bd -r backup.7z docs/ | grep Compressing | \
  tqdm --total $(find docs/ -type f | wc -l) --unit files >> backup.log
100%|███████████████████████████████▉| 8014/8014 [01:37<00:00, 82.29files/s]
```

Overhead is low -- about 60ns per iteration.

In addition to its low overhead, `tqdm` uses smart algorithms to predict
the remaining time and to skip unnecessary iteration displays, which
allows for a negligible overhead in most cases.

`tqdm` works on any platform (Linux, Windows, Mac, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
Solaris/SunOS), in any console or in a GUI, and is also friendly with
IPython/Jupyter notebooks.

`tqdm` does not require any dependencies, just
an environment supporting `carriage return \r` and
`line feed \n` control characters.

### Package name

* tqdm

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### License

* MIT OR MPL-2.0

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### Last updated

* 11 September 2026 - latest/stable
* 11 September 2026 - latest/edge

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### Websites

* [github.com/tqdm/tqdm](https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm "https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm")

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### Contact

* [tqdm@caspersci.uk.to](mailto:tqdm@caspersci.uk.to "mailto:tqdm@caspersci.uk.to")

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* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/tqdm/ubuntu#report-snap-modal)

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## Enable snaps on Ubuntu and install tqdm

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions.

### Enable snapd

If you’re running [Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)](https://www.ubuntu.com/) or later, including [Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)](https://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/features) and [Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseNotes), you don’t need to do anything. Snap is already installed and ready to go.

For versions of Ubuntu between [14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes) and [15.10 (Wily Werewolf)](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/ReleaseNotes), as well as Ubuntu flavours that don’t include *snap* by default, *snap* can be installed from the Ubuntu Software Centre by searching for *snapd*.

Alternatively, snapd can be installed from the command line:

```
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
```

Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.

### Install tqdm

To install tqdm, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install tqdm
```

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