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

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-rbd.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. python-rbd.x86_64 is Python libraries for the RADOS block device

Introduction

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

What is `python-rbd.x86_64`

This package contains Python libraries for interacting with Cephs RADOS block device.

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

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

sudo yum -y install python-rbd.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove python-rbd.x86_64

python-rbd.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/rbd-0-py2.7.egg-info
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/rbd-0-py2.7.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/rbd-0-py2.7.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/rbd-0-py2.7.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/rbd-0-py2.7.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/rbd.so

References

python-rbd.x86_64 website

Summary

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