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

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

Introduction

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

What is `openscap-python.x86_64`

The openscap-python package contains the bindings so that openscap libraries can be used by python.

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

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

sudo yum -y install openscap-python.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove openscap-python.x86_64

openscap-python.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_openscap_py.so
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/openscap.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/openscap.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/openscap.pyo
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/openscap_api.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/openscap_api.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/openscap_api.pyo

References

openscap-python.x86_64 website

Summary

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