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

In this tutorial we learn how to install rrdtool-python.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. rrdtool-python.x86_64 is Python RRDtool bindings

Introduction

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

What is `rrdtool-python.x86_64`

Python RRDtool bindings.

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

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

sudo yum -y install rrdtool-python.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove rrdtool-python.x86_64

rrdtool-python.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/py_rrdtool-0.2.2-py2.7.egg-info
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/rrdtoolmodule.so
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-python-1.4.8
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-python-1.4.8/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-python-1.4.8/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-python-1.4.8/README

References

rrdtool-python.x86_64 website

Summary

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