How To Install sip on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sip
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is sip
SIP is a tool for generating bindings for C++ classes so that they can be accessed as normal Python classes. SIP takes many of its ideas from SWIG but, because it is specifically designed for C++ and Python, is able to generate tighter bindings. SIP is so called because it is a small SWIG. SIP was originally designed to generate Python bindings for KDE and so has explicit support for the signal slot mechanism used by the Qt/KDE class libraries. However, SIP can be used to generate Python bindings for any C++ class library.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install sip
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sip.
Install sip 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 sip
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sip
Install sip 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 sip
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sip
How To Uninstall sip on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the sip
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sip
sip Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/python3-sip
/usr/bin/sip
/usr/bin/sip-pyqt5
/usr/bin/sip-wx
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3/372ab73a3b81c1a2ba6b2624031edb24907351
/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.sip
/usr/share/doc/sip
/usr/share/doc/sip/README
/usr/share/licenses/sip
/usr/share/licenses/sip/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/sip/LICENSE-GPL2
/usr/share/licenses/sip/LICENSE-GPL3
/usr/share/sip
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sip
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.