How To Install python3.i686 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3.i686
on Amazon Linux 2.
What is python3.i686
Python is an accessible, high-level, dynamically typed, interpreted programming language, designed with an emphasis on code readability. It includes an extensive standard library, and has a vast ecosystem of third-party libraries. The python3 package provides the “python3” executable reference interpreter for the Python language, version 3. The majority of its standard library is provided in the python3-libs package, which should be installed automatically along with python3. The remaining parts of the Python standard library are broken out into the python3-tkinter and python3-test packages, which may need to be installed separately. Documentation for Python is provided in the python3-docs package. Packages containing additional libraries for Python are generally named with the “python3-” prefix.
We can use yum
to install python3.i686
on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python3.i686.
Install python3.i686 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.i686
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install python3.i686
How To Uninstall python3.i686 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the python3.i686
package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove python3.i686
python3.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/bin/pydoc3
/usr/bin/pydoc3.7
/usr/bin/python3
/usr/bin/python3.7
/usr/bin/python3.7m
/usr/bin/pyvenv
/usr/bin/pyvenv-3.7
/usr/share/doc/python3-3.7.10
/usr/share/doc/python3-3.7.10/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/python3-3.7.10
/usr/share/licenses/python3-3.7.10/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/python3.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/python3.7.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3.i686
on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.