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

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-idna.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. python-idna.noarch is Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)

Introduction

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

What is `python-idna.noarch`

A library to support the Internationalised Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) protocol as specified in RFC 5891 <http protocol is often referred to as “IDNA2008” and can produce different results from the earlier standard from 2003. The library is also intended to act as a suitable drop-in replacement for the “encodings.idna” module that comes with the Python standard library but currently only supports the older 2003 specification.

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

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

sudo yum -y install python-idna.noarch

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

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

sudo yum remove python-idna.noarch

python-idna.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna-2.4-py2.7.egg-info
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna-2.4-py2.7.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna-2.4-py2.7.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna-2.4-py2.7.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna-2.4-py2.7.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/codec.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/codec.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/codec.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/compat.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/compat.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/compat.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/core.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/core.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/core.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/idnadata.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/idnadata.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/idnadata.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/intranges.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/intranges.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/intranges.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/uts46data.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/uts46data.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/idna/uts46data.pyo
/usr/share/doc/python-idna-2.4
/usr/share/doc/python-idna-2.4/HISTORY.rst
/usr/share/doc/python-idna-2.4/LICENSE.rst
/usr/share/doc/python-idna-2.4/README.rst

References

python-idna.noarch website

Summary

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