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

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-kmod.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. python-kmod.x86_64 is Python module to work with kernel modules

Introduction

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

What is python-kmod.x86_64

Python module to allow listing, loading, and unloading Linux kernel modules, using libkmod.

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

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

sudo yum -y install python-kmod.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove python-kmod.x86_64

python-kmod.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/kmod-0.1-py2.7.egg-info
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/kmod/__init__.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/kmod/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/kmod/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/kmod/_util.so
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/kmod/error.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/kmod/error.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/kmod/error.pyo
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/kmod/kmod.so
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/kmod/list.so
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/kmod/module.so
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/kmod/version.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/kmod/version.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/kmod/version.pyo
/usr/share/doc/python-kmod-0.9
/usr/share/doc/python-kmod-0.9/COPYING.LESSER
/usr/share/doc/python-kmod-0.9/README

References

Summary

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