How To Install python3-appdirs on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-appdirs on Rocky Linux 8. python3-appdirs is Python module for determining platform-specific directories

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-appdirs on Rocky Linux 8.

What is python3-appdirs

A small Python 3 module for determining appropriate " + " platform-specific directories, e.g. a “user data dir”.

We can use yum or dnf to install python3-appdirs on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python3-appdirs.

Install python3-appdirs 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 python3-appdirs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install python3-appdirs

Install python3-appdirs 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 python3-appdirs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python3-appdirs

How To Uninstall python3-appdirs on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove python3-appdirs

python3-appdirs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/appdirs.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/appdirs.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appdirs-1.4.3.dist-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appdirs-1.4.3.dist-info/DESCRIPTION.rst
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appdirs-1.4.3.dist-info/INSTALLER
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appdirs-1.4.3.dist-info/METADATA
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appdirs-1.4.3.dist-info/RECORD
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appdirs-1.4.3.dist-info/WHEEL
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appdirs-1.4.3.dist-info/metadata.json
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appdirs-1.4.3.dist-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appdirs.py
/usr/share/doc/python3-appdirs
/usr/share/doc/python3-appdirs/CHANGES.rst
/usr/share/doc/python3-appdirs/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/python3-appdirs
/usr/share/licenses/python3-appdirs/LICENSE.txt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-appdirs on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.