How To Install python2-idna on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-idna on Rocky Linux 8.
What is python2-idna
A library to support the Internationalised Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) protocol as specified in RFC 5891 <http version of the protocol is often referred to as “IDNA2008” and can produce different results from the earlier standard from 2003. The library is also intended to act as a suitable drop-in replacement for the “encodings.idna” module that comes with the Python standard library but currently only supports the older 2003 specification.
We can use yum or dnf to install python2-idna on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python2-idna.
Install python2-idna on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install python2-idna using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install python2-idna
Install python2-idna on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install python2-idna using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install python2-idna
How To Uninstall python2-idna on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the python2-idna package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove python2-idna
python2-idna Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna-2.5-py2.7.egg-info
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna-2.5-py2.7.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna-2.5-py2.7.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna-2.5-py2.7.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna-2.5-py2.7.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/codec.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/codec.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/codec.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/compat.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/compat.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/compat.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/core.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/core.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/core.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/idnadata.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/idnadata.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/idnadata.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/intranges.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/intranges.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/intranges.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/uts46data.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/uts46data.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/uts46data.pyo
/usr/share/doc/python2-idna
/usr/share/doc/python2-idna/HISTORY.rst
/usr/share/doc/python2-idna/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/python2-idna
/usr/share/licenses/python2-idna/LICENSE.rst
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-idna on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
