How To Install python-daemon.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-daemon.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. python-daemon.noarch is Library to implement a well-behaved Unix daemon process

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-daemon.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `python-daemon.noarch`

This library implements the well-behaved daemon specification of PEP 3143, “Standard daemon process library”.

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

Install python-daemon.noarch 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 python-daemon.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python-daemon.noarch

How To Uninstall python-daemon.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the python-daemon.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove python-daemon.noarch

python-daemon.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/daemon
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/daemon/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/daemon/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/daemon/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/daemon/daemon.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/daemon/daemon.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/daemon/daemon.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/daemon/pidfile.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/daemon/pidfile.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/daemon/pidfile.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/daemon/runner.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/daemon/runner.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/daemon/runner.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/daemon/version
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/daemon/version/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/daemon/version/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/daemon/version/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/daemon/version/version_info.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/daemon/version/version_info.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/daemon/version/version_info.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/python_daemon-1.6-py2.7.egg-info
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/python_daemon-1.6-py2.7.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/python_daemon-1.6-py2.7.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/python_daemon-1.6-py2.7.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/python_daemon-1.6-py2.7.egg-info/not-zip-safe
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/python_daemon-1.6-py2.7.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/python_daemon-1.6-py2.7.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/share/doc/python-daemon-1.6
/usr/share/doc/python-daemon-1.6/LICENSE.PSF-2

References

python-daemon.noarch website

Summary

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