How To Install python3-ifcfg on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-ifcfg
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is python3-ifcfg
Ifcfg is a cross-platform library for parsing ifconfig and ipconfig output in Python. It is useful for pulling information such as IP, Netmask, MAC Address, Hostname, etc. A fallback to ip is included for newer Unix systems w/o ifconfig.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install python3-ifcfg
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python3-ifcfg.
Install python3-ifcfg 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-ifcfg
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install python3-ifcfg
Install python3-ifcfg 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-ifcfg
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install python3-ifcfg
How To Uninstall python3-ifcfg on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the python3-ifcfg
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove python3-ifcfg
python3-ifcfg Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ifcfg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ifcfg-0.21-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ifcfg-0.21-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ifcfg-0.21-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ifcfg-0.21-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ifcfg-0.21-py3.6.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ifcfg-0.21-py3.6.egg-info/namespace_packages.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ifcfg-0.21-py3.6.egg-info/not-zip-safe
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ifcfg-0.21-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ifcfg/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ifcfg/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ifcfg/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ifcfg/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ifcfg/__pycache__/cli.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ifcfg/__pycache__/cli.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ifcfg/__pycache__/parser.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ifcfg/__pycache__/parser.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ifcfg/__pycache__/tools.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ifcfg/__pycache__/tools.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ifcfg/cli.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ifcfg/parser.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ifcfg/tools.py
/usr/share/doc/python3-ifcfg
/usr/share/doc/python3-ifcfg/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/python3-ifcfg
/usr/share/licenses/python3-ifcfg/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-ifcfg
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.