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

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-inotify.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. python-inotify.noarch is Monitor filesystem events with Python under Linux

Introduction

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

What is `python-inotify.noarch`

This is a Python module for watching filesystems changes. pyinotify can be used for various kind of fs monitoring. pyinotify relies on a recent Linux Kernel feature (merged in kernel 2.6.13) called inotify. inotify is an event-driven notifier, its notifications are exported from kernel space to user space.

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

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

sudo yum -y install python-inotify.noarch

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

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

sudo yum remove python-inotify.noarch

python-inotify.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/pyinotify
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyinotify-0.9.4-py2.7.egg-info
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyinotify.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyinotify.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyinotify.pyo
/usr/share/doc/python-inotify-0.9.4
/usr/share/doc/python-inotify-0.9.4/ACKS
/usr/share/doc/python-inotify-0.9.4/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/python-inotify-0.9.4/README.md

References

python-inotify.noarch website

Summary

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