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

In this tutorial we learn how to install cryptsetup-python.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. cryptsetup-python.x86_64 is Python bindings for libcryptsetup

Introduction

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

What is `cryptsetup-python.x86_64`

This package provides Python bindings for libcryptsetup, a library for setting up disk encryption using dm-crypt kernel module.

We can use yum to install cryptsetup-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 cryptsetup-python.x86_64.

Install cryptsetup-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 cryptsetup-python.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cryptsetup-python.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove cryptsetup-python.x86_64

cryptsetup-python.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pycryptsetup.so
/usr/share/doc/cryptsetup-python-1.7.4
/usr/share/doc/cryptsetup-python-1.7.4/pycryptsetup-test.py
/usr/share/licenses/cryptsetup-python-1.7.4
/usr/share/licenses/cryptsetup-python-1.7.4/COPYING.LGPL

References

cryptsetup-python.x86_64 website

Summary

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