How To Install python3-gflags on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-gflags on Rocky Linux 8.
What is python3-gflags
This project is the python equivalent of google-gflags, a Google commandline flag implementation for C++. It is intended to be used in situations where a project wants to mimic the command-line flag handling of a C++ app that uses google-gflags, or for a Python app that, via swig or some other means, is linked with a C++ app that uses google-gflags. The gflags package contains a library that implements commandline flags processing. As such it’s a replacement for getopt(). It has increased flexibility, including built-in support for Python types, and the ability to define flags in the source file in which they’re used. (This last is its major difference from OptParse.)
We can use yum or dnf to install python3-gflags on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python3-gflags.
Install python3-gflags 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-gflags using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install python3-gflags
Install python3-gflags 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-gflags using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install python3-gflags
How To Uninstall python3-gflags on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the python3-gflags package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove python3-gflags
python3-gflags Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/gflags2man
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/gflags.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/gflags.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/gflags_validators.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/gflags_validators.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gflags.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gflags_validators.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/python_gflags-2.0-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/python_gflags-2.0-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/python_gflags-2.0-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/python_gflags-2.0-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/python_gflags-2.0-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/share/doc/python3-gflags
/usr/share/doc/python3-gflags/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/python3-gflags/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/python3-gflags/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/python3-gflags/README
/usr/share/licenses/python3-gflags
/usr/share/licenses/python3-gflags/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-gflags on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
