How To Install python3-dmidecode on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-dmidecode on CentOS 8.
What is python3-dmidecode
python3-dmidecode is a Python 3 extension module that uses the code-base of the ‘dmidecode’ utility, and presents the data as Python 3 data structures or as XML data using libxml2.
We can use yum or dnf to install python3-dmidecode on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python3-dmidecode.
Install python3-dmidecode on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install python3-dmidecode using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install python3-dmidecode
Install python3-dmidecode on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install python3-dmidecode using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install python3-dmidecode
How To Uninstall python3-dmidecode on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the python3-dmidecode package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove python3-dmidecode
python3-dmidecode Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf/b6d0341331cf58dce5d49c8c777f682192cfd7
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/dmidecode.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/dmidecode.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/dmidecode.py
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/dmidecodemod.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/python_dmidecode-3.12.2-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/share/doc/python3-dmidecode
/usr/share/doc/python3-dmidecode/README
/usr/share/doc/python3-dmidecode/README.upstream
/usr/share/licenses/python3-dmidecode
/usr/share/licenses/python3-dmidecode/AUTHORS
/usr/share/licenses/python3-dmidecode/AUTHORS.upstream
/usr/share/licenses/python3-dmidecode/LICENSE
/usr/share/python-dmidecode
/usr/share/python-dmidecode/pymap.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-dmidecode on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.