How To Install python3-iscsi-initiator-utils on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-iscsi-initiator-utils on CentOS 8.
What is python3-iscsi-initiator-utils
The iscsi-initiator-utils-python3 package contains Python 3.6 bindings to the libiscsi interface for interacting with iscsi-initiator-utils
We can use yum or dnf to install python3-iscsi-initiator-utils on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python3-iscsi-initiator-utils.
Install python3-iscsi-initiator-utils 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-iscsi-initiator-utils using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install python3-iscsi-initiator-utils
Install python3-iscsi-initiator-utils 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-iscsi-initiator-utils using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install python3-iscsi-initiator-utils
How To Uninstall python3-iscsi-initiator-utils on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the python3-iscsi-initiator-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove python3-iscsi-initiator-utils
python3-iscsi-initiator-utils Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5/a55b8ab6da5650bc8b57b761accbb1bec2499e
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/PyIscsi-1.0-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/libiscsi.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-iscsi-initiator-utils on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.