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

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-six.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. python-six.noarch is Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities

Introduction

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

What is `python-six.noarch`

python-six provides simple utilities for wrapping over differences between Python 2 and Python 3. This is the Python 2 build of the module.

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

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

sudo yum -y install python-six.noarch

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

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

sudo yum remove python-six.noarch

python-six.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/six-1.9.0-py2.7.egg-info
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/six-1.9.0-py2.7.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/six-1.9.0-py2.7.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/six-1.9.0-py2.7.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/six-1.9.0-py2.7.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/six.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/six.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/six.pyo
/usr/share/doc/python-six-1.9.0
/usr/share/doc/python-six-1.9.0/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/python-six-1.9.0/README
/usr/share/doc/python-six-1.9.0/index.rst

References

python-six.noarch website

Summary

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