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

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-pwquality.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. python-pwquality.x86_64 is Python bindings for the libpwquality library

Introduction

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

What is python-pwquality.x86_64

This is pwquality Python module that provides Python bindings for the libpwquality library. These bindings can be used for easy password quality checking and generation of random pronounceable passwords from Python applications.

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

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

sudo yum -y install python-pwquality.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove python-pwquality.x86_64

python-pwquality.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pwquality.so

References

Summary

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