How To Install pyorbit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pyorbit.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. pyorbit.x86_64 is Python bindings for ORBit2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pyorbit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `pyorbit.x86_64`

pyorbit is an extension module for python that gives you access to the ORBit2 CORBA ORB.

We can use yum to install pyorbit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pyorbit.x86_64.

Install pyorbit.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 pyorbit.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pyorbit.x86_64

How To Uninstall pyorbit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the pyorbit.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove pyorbit.x86_64

pyorbit.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/CORBA.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/CORBA.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/CORBA.pyo
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/ORBit.so
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/PortableServer.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/PortableServer.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/PortableServer.pyo
/usr/share/doc/pyorbit-2.24.0
/usr/share/doc/pyorbit-2.24.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pyorbit-2.24.0/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/pyorbit-2.24.0/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/pyorbit-2.24.0/README

References

pyorbit.x86_64 website

Summary

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