How To Install python3-simplegeneric on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-simplegeneric
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is python3-simplegeneric
The simplegeneric module lets you define simple single-dispatch generic functions, akin to Python’s built-in generic functions like len(), iter() and so on. However, instead of using specially-named methods, these generic functions use simple lookup tables, akin to those used by e.g. pickle.dump() and other generic functions found in the Python standard library.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install python3-simplegeneric
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python3-simplegeneric.
Install python3-simplegeneric 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-simplegeneric
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install python3-simplegeneric
Install python3-simplegeneric 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-simplegeneric
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install python3-simplegeneric
How To Uninstall python3-simplegeneric on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the python3-simplegeneric
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove python3-simplegeneric
python3-simplegeneric Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/simplegeneric.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/simplegeneric.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/simplegeneric-0.8.1-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/simplegeneric-0.8.1-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/simplegeneric-0.8.1-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/simplegeneric-0.8.1-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/simplegeneric-0.8.1-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/simplegeneric.py
/usr/share/doc/python3-simplegeneric
/usr/share/doc/python3-simplegeneric/README.txt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-simplegeneric
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.