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

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-gudev.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. python-gudev.x86_64 is Python (PyGObject) bindings to the GUDev library

Introduction

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

What is `python-gudev.x86_64`

python-gudev is a Python (PyGObject) binding to the GUDev UDEV library.

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

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

sudo yum -y install python-gudev.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove python-gudev.x86_64

python-gudev.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gudev.so
/usr/share/doc/python-gudev-147.2
/usr/share/doc/python-gudev-147.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/python-gudev-147.2/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/python-gudev-147.2/README
/usr/share/doc/python-gudev-147.2/test.py
/usr/share/pygobject
/usr/share/pygobject/2.0
/usr/share/pygobject/2.0/defs
/usr/share/pygobject/2.0/defs/gudev.defs

References

python-gudev.x86_64 website

Summary

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