How To Install python3-dmidecode on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-dmidecode on Rocky Linux 8. python3-dmidecode is Python 3 module to access DMI data

Introduction

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

What is `python3-dmidecode`

python3-dmidecode is a Python 3 extension module that uses the code-base of the ‘dmidecode’ utility, and presents the data as Python 3 data structures or as XML data using libxml2.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install python3-dmidecode

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

sudo yum -y install python3-dmidecode

How To Uninstall python3-dmidecode on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove python3-dmidecode

python3-dmidecode Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/55
/usr/lib/.build-id/55/d6a3f0b7241ea668c8e255153bf521ad6375e6
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/dmidecode.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/dmidecode.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/dmidecode.py
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/dmidecodemod.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/python_dmidecode-3.12.2-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/share/doc/python3-dmidecode
/usr/share/doc/python3-dmidecode/README
/usr/share/doc/python3-dmidecode/README.upstream
/usr/share/licenses/python3-dmidecode
/usr/share/licenses/python3-dmidecode/AUTHORS
/usr/share/licenses/python3-dmidecode/AUTHORS.upstream
/usr/share/licenses/python3-dmidecode/LICENSE
/usr/share/python-dmidecode
/usr/share/python-dmidecode/pymap.xml

References

python3-dmidecode website

Summary

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