How To Install python2-rpm.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-rpm.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is python2-rpm.x86_64
The python2-rpm package contains a module that permits applications written in the Python programming language to use the interface supplied by RPM Package Manager libraries. This package should be installed if you want to develop Python 2 programs that will manipulate RPM packages and databases.
We can use yum to install python2-rpm.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python2-rpm.x86_64.
Install python2-rpm.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 python2-rpm.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install python2-rpm.x86_64
How To Uninstall python2-rpm.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the python2-rpm.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove python2-rpm.x86_64
python2-rpm.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/rpm
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/rpm/__init__.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/rpm/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/rpm/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/rpm/_rpm.so
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/rpm/_rpmb.so
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/rpm/_rpms.so
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/rpm/transaction.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/rpm/transaction.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/rpm/transaction.pyo
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/rpm_python-4.11.3-py2.7.egg-info
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-rpm.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.