How To Install python-rpm-macros.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-rpm-macros.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. python-rpm-macros.noarch is The unversioned Python RPM macros

Introduction

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

What is python-rpm-macros.noarch

This package contains the unversioned Python RPM macros, that most implementations should rely on. You should not need to install this package manually as the various python?-devel packages require it. So install a python-devel package instead.

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

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

sudo yum -y install python-rpm-macros.noarch

How To Uninstall python-rpm-macros.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove python-rpm-macros.noarch

python-rpm-macros.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.pybytecompile
/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.python

References

Summary

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