How To Install python3-versioneer on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-versioneer in Fedora 36. python3-versioneer is Easy VCS-based management of project version strings

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-versioneer on Fedora 36.

What is `python3-versioneer`

Versioneer is a tool to automatically update version strings (in setup.py and the conventional ‘from PROJECT import _version’ pattern) by asking your version-control system about the current tree.

We can use yum or dnf to install python3-versioneer on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python3-versioneer.

Install python3-versioneer on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install python3-versioneer using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install python3-versioneer

Install python3-versioneer on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install python3-versioneer using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python3-versioneer

How To Uninstall python3-versioneer on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the python3-versioneer package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove python3-versioneer

python3-versioneer Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/versioneer
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/__pycache__/versioneer.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/__pycache__/versioneer.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/versioneer-0.21-py3.10.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/versioneer-0.21-py3.10.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/versioneer-0.21-py3.10.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/versioneer-0.21-py3.10.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/versioneer-0.21-py3.10.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/versioneer-0.21-py3.10.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/versioneer.py
/usr/share/doc/python3-versioneer
/usr/share/doc/python3-versioneer/README.md

References

python3-versioneer website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-versioneer on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).