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

In this tutorial we learn how to install OpenIPMI-python.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. OpenIPMI-python.x86_64 is IPMI Python language bindings

Introduction

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

What is `OpenIPMI-python.x86_64`

The OpenIPMI-python package contains the Python language bindings for OpenIPMI.

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

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

sudo yum -y install OpenIPMI-python.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove OpenIPMI-python.x86_64

OpenIPMI-python.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/OpenIPMI.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/OpenIPMI.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/OpenIPMI.pyo
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_OpenIPMI.la
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_OpenIPMI.so

References

OpenIPMI-python.x86_64 website

Summary

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