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

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-netifaces.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. python-netifaces.x86_64 is Python library to retrieve information about network interfaces

Introduction

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

What is `python-netifaces.x86_64`

This package provides a cross platform API for getting address information from network interfaces.

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

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

sudo yum -y install python-netifaces.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove python-netifaces.x86_64

python-netifaces.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/netifaces-0.10.4-py2.7.egg-info
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/netifaces-0.10.4-py2.7.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/netifaces-0.10.4-py2.7.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/netifaces-0.10.4-py2.7.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/netifaces-0.10.4-py2.7.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/netifaces-0.10.4-py2.7.egg-info/zip-safe
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/netifaces.so
/usr/share/doc/python-netifaces-0.10.4
/usr/share/doc/python-netifaces-0.10.4/README.rst

References

python-netifaces.x86_64 website

Summary

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