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

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

Introduction

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

What is `libpst-python.x86_64`

The libpst-python package allows you to use the libpst shared object from python code.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libpst-python.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libpst-python.x86_64

libpst-python.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

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

References

libpst-python.x86_64 website

Summary

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