How To Install python3-wheel.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-wheel.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. python3-wheel.noarch is Built-package format for Python

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-wheel.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `python3-wheel.noarch`

A built-package format for Python. A wheel is a ZIP-format archive with a specially formatted filename and the .whl extension. It is designed to contain all the files for a PEP 376 compatible install in a way that is very close to the on-disk format. Python 3 version.

We can use yum to install python3-wheel.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python3-wheel.noarch.

Install python3-wheel.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 python3-wheel.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python3-wheel.noarch

How To Uninstall python3-wheel.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the python3-wheel.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove python3-wheel.noarch

python3-wheel.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/wheel-3
/usr/bin/wheel-3.7
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel-0.34.2-py3.7.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel-0.34.2-py3.7.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel-0.34.2-py3.7.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel-0.34.2-py3.7.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel-0.34.2-py3.7.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel-0.34.2-py3.7.egg-info/not-zip-safe
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel-0.34.2-py3.7.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel-0.34.2-py3.7.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/__main__.py
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-37.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-37.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-37.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-37.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/bdist_wheel.cpython-37.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/bdist_wheel.cpython-37.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/macosx_libfile.cpython-37.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/macosx_libfile.cpython-37.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/metadata.cpython-37.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/metadata.cpython-37.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/pep425tags.cpython-37.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/pep425tags.cpython-37.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/pkginfo.cpython-37.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/pkginfo.cpython-37.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/util.cpython-37.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/util.cpython-37.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/wheelfile.cpython-37.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/wheelfile.cpython-37.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/bdist_wheel.py
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/cli
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/cli/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/cli/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/cli/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-37.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/cli/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-37.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/cli/__pycache__/convert.cpython-37.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/cli/__pycache__/convert.cpython-37.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/cli/__pycache__/pack.cpython-37.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/cli/__pycache__/pack.cpython-37.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/cli/__pycache__/unpack.cpython-37.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/cli/__pycache__/unpack.cpython-37.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/cli/convert.py
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/cli/pack.py
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/cli/unpack.py
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/macosx_libfile.py
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/metadata.py
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/pep425tags.py
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/pkginfo.py
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/util.py
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/wheelfile.py
/usr/share/doc/python3-wheel-0.34.2
/usr/share/doc/python3-wheel-0.34.2/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/python3-wheel-0.34.2
/usr/share/licenses/python3-wheel-0.34.2/LICENSE.txt

References

python3-wheel.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-wheel.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.