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

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-magic.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. python-magic.noarch is Python bindings for the libmagic API

Introduction

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

What is `python-magic.noarch`

This package contains the Python bindings to allow access to the libmagic API. The libmagic library is also used by the familiar file(1) command.

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

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

sudo yum -y install python-magic.noarch

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

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

sudo yum remove python-magic.noarch

python-magic.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Magic_file_extensions-0.2-py2.7.egg-info
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/magic.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/magic.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/magic.pyo
/usr/share/doc/python-magic-5.11
/usr/share/doc/python-magic-5.11/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/python-magic-5.11/README
/usr/share/doc/python-magic-5.11/example.py

References

python-magic.noarch website

Summary

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