How To Install pyxattr.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pyxattr.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. pyxattr.x86_64 is Extended attributes library wrapper for Python

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pyxattr.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `pyxattr.x86_64`

Python extension module wrapper for libattr. It allows to query, list, add and remove extended attributes from files and directories.

We can use yum to install pyxattr.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pyxattr.x86_64.

Install pyxattr.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 pyxattr.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pyxattr.x86_64

How To Uninstall pyxattr.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the pyxattr.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove pyxattr.x86_64

pyxattr.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyxattr-0.5.1-py2.7.egg-info
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyxattr-0.5.1-py2.7.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyxattr-0.5.1-py2.7.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyxattr-0.5.1-py2.7.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyxattr-0.5.1-py2.7.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xattr.so
/usr/share/doc/pyxattr-0.5.1
/usr/share/doc/pyxattr-0.5.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/pyxattr-0.5.1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/pyxattr-0.5.1/README

References

pyxattr.x86_64 website

Summary

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