How To Install cracklib-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install cracklib-python.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. cracklib-python.x86_64 is Python bindings for applications which use cracklib

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cracklib-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `cracklib-python.x86_64`

The cracklib-python package contains a module which permits applications written in the Python programming language to use cracklib.

We can use yum to install cracklib-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cracklib-python.x86_64.

Install cracklib-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install cracklib-python.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cracklib-python.x86_64

How To Uninstall cracklib-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the cracklib-python.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove cracklib-python.x86_64

cracklib-python.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_cracklib.so
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/cracklib.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/cracklib.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/cracklib.pyo
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/test_cracklib.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/test_cracklib.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/test_cracklib.pyo

References

cracklib-python.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cracklib-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.