How To Install libieee1284-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libieee1284-python.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libieee1284-python.x86_64 is Python extension module for libieee1284

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libieee1284-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libieee1284-python.x86_64`

Python extension module for libieee1284. To use libieee1284 with Python, use ‘import ieee1284’.

We can use yum to install libieee1284-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 libieee1284-python.x86_64.

Install libieee1284-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 libieee1284-python.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libieee1284-python.x86_64

How To Uninstall libieee1284-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libieee1284-python.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libieee1284-python.x86_64

libieee1284-python.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/ieee1284module.so

References

libieee1284-python.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libieee1284-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.