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

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-smbc.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. python-smbc.x86_64 is Python bindings for libsmbclient API from Samba

Introduction

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

What is `python-smbc.x86_64`

This package provides Python bindings for the libsmbclient API from Samba, known as pysmbc. It was written for use with system-config-printer, but can be put to other uses as well.

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

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

sudo yum -y install python-smbc.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove python-smbc.x86_64

python-smbc.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pysmbc-1.0.13-py2.7.egg-info
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/smbc.so
/usr/share/doc/python-smbc-1.0.13
/usr/share/doc/python-smbc-1.0.13/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/python-smbc-1.0.13/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/python-smbc-1.0.13/README

References

python-smbc.x86_64 website

Summary

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