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

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

Introduction

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

What is `newt-python.x86_64`

The newt-python package contains the Python bindings for the newt library providing a python API for creating text mode ionterfaces.

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

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

sudo yum -y install newt-python.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove newt-python.x86_64

newt-python.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_snackmodule.so
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/snack.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/snack.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/snack.pyo
/usr/share/doc/newt-python-0.52.15
/usr/share/doc/newt-python-0.52.15/peanuts.py
/usr/share/doc/newt-python-0.52.15/popcorn.py

References

newt-python.x86_64 website

Summary

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