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

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-kerberos.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. python-kerberos.x86_64 is A high-level wrapper for Kerberos (GSSAPI) operations

Introduction

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

What is `python-kerberos.x86_64`

This Python package is a high-level wrapper for Kerberos (GSSAPI) operations. The goal is to avoid having to build a module that wraps the entire Kerberos.framework, and instead offer a limited set of functions that do what is needed for client/serverKerberos authentication based on <http Much of the C-code here is adapted from Apache’s mod_auth_kerb-5.0rc7.

We can use yum to install python-kerberos.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-kerberos.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install python-kerberos.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove python-kerberos.x86_64

python-kerberos.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/kerberos-1.1-py2.7.egg-info
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/kerberos.so
/usr/share/doc/python-kerberos-1.1
/usr/share/doc/python-kerberos-1.1/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/python-kerberos-1.1/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/python-kerberos-1.1/test.py

References

python-kerberos.x86_64 website

Summary

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