How To Install libcap-ng-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

Introduction

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

What is `libcap-ng-python.x86_64`

The libcap-ng-python package contains the bindings so that libcap-ng and can be used by python applications.

We can use yum to install libcap-ng-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 libcap-ng-python.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libcap-ng-python.x86_64

How To Uninstall libcap-ng-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libcap-ng-python.x86_64

libcap-ng-python.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_capng.so
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/capng.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/capng.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/capng.pyo

References

libcap-ng-python.x86_64 website

Summary

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