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

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

Introduction

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

What is `python-tdb.x86_64`

Python bindings for libtdb

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

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

sudo yum -y install python-tdb.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove python-tdb.x86_64

python-tdb.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_tdb_text.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_tdb_text.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_tdb_text.pyo
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/tdb.so

References

python-tdb.x86_64 website

Summary

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