How To Install libxml2-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxml2-python.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libxml2-python.x86_64 is Python bindings for the libxml2 library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxml2-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is libxml2-python.x86_64

The libxml2-python package contains a module that permits applications written in the Python programming language to use the interface supplied by the libxml2 library to manipulate XML files. This library allows to manipulate XML files. It includes support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. There is DTDs support this includes parsing and validation even with complex DTDs, either at parse time or later once the document has been modified.

We can use yum to install libxml2-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 libxml2-python.x86_64.

Install libxml2-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 libxml2-python.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libxml2-python.x86_64

How To Uninstall libxml2-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libxml2-python.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libxml2-python.x86_64

libxml2-python.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/drv_libxml2.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/drv_libxml2.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/drv_libxml2.pyo
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libxml2.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libxml2.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libxml2.pyo
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libxml2mod.so
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/TODO
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/apibuild.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/attribs.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/build.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/compareNodes.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/ctxterror.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/cutnpaste.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/dtdvalid.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/error.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/inbuf.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/index.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/indexes.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/input_callback.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/libxml2class.txt
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/nsdel.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/outbuf.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/push.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/pushSAX.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/pushSAXhtml.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/python.html
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/reader.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/reader2.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/reader3.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/reader4.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/reader5.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/reader6.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/reader7.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/reader8.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/readererr.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/readernext.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/regexp.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/relaxng.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/resolver.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/schema.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/serialize.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/sync.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/thread2.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/tst.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/tstLastError.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/tstURI.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/tstmem.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/tstxpath.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/validDTD.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/validRNG.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/validSchemas.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/validate.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/walker.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/xpath.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/xpathext.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/xpathleak.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/xpathns.py
/usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-2.9.1/xpathret.py

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxml2-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.