How To Install python3-libarchive-c on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-libarchive-c
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is python3-libarchive-c
The libarchive library provides a flexible interface for reading and writing archives in various formats such as tar and cpio. libarchive also supports reading and writing archives compressed using various compression filters such as gzip and bzip2. A Python interface to libarchive. It uses the standard ctypes module to dynamically load and access the C library.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install python3-libarchive-c
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python3-libarchive-c.
Install python3-libarchive-c 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-libarchive-c
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install python3-libarchive-c
Install python3-libarchive-c 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-libarchive-c
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install python3-libarchive-c
How To Uninstall python3-libarchive-c on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the python3-libarchive-c
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove python3-libarchive-c
python3-libarchive-c Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive/__pycache__/entry.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive/__pycache__/entry.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive/__pycache__/exception.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive/__pycache__/exception.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive/__pycache__/extract.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive/__pycache__/extract.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive/__pycache__/ffi.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive/__pycache__/ffi.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive/__pycache__/flags.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive/__pycache__/flags.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive/__pycache__/read.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive/__pycache__/read.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive/__pycache__/write.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive/__pycache__/write.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive/entry.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive/exception.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive/extract.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive/ffi.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive/flags.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive/read.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive/write.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive_c-2.8-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive_c-2.8-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive_c-2.8-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive_c-2.8-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/libarchive_c-2.8-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/share/doc/python-libarchive-c
/usr/share/doc/python-libarchive-c/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/python-libarchive-c
/usr/share/licenses/python-libarchive-c/LICENSE.md
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-libarchive-c
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.