How To Install redhat-support-lib-python on CentOS 8

redhat-support-lib-python is Red Hat Support Software Development Library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install redhat-support-lib-python on CentOS 8.

What is redhat-support-lib-python

This package contains the Red Hat Support Software Development Library. Red Hat customers can use the library to easily integrate their help desk solutions, IT infrastructure, etc. with the services provided by the Red Hat Customer Portal. The library provided by this package is an abstraction layer that simplifies interactions with the Red Hat Customer Portal. Simply create an instance of the API by providing the necessary authorization credentials, then use the API object to interact with the Red Hat Customer Portal. Some of the interactions supported by this API include, but are not limited to, automatic diagnostic services on log files, knowledge base searching, support case creation, attach files to support cases, view the status of support cases, entitlement viewing, etc.

We can use yum or dnf to install redhat-support-lib-python on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install redhat-support-lib-python.

Install redhat-support-lib-python 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 redhat-support-lib-python using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install redhat-support-lib-python

Install redhat-support-lib-python 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 redhat-support-lib-python using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install redhat-support-lib-python

How To Uninstall redhat-support-lib-python on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the redhat-support-lib-python package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove redhat-support-lib-python

redhat-support-lib-python Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/__pycache__/api.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/__pycache__/api.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/__pycache__/version.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/__pycache__/version.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/api.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/infrastructure
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/infrastructure/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/infrastructure/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/infrastructure/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/infrastructure/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/infrastructure/__pycache__/brokers.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
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/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/infrastructure/__pycache__/common.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/infrastructure/__pycache__/common.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/infrastructure/__pycache__/connectionspool.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
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/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/infrastructure/__pycache__/contextmanager.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/infrastructure/__pycache__/errors.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/infrastructure/__pycache__/errors.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/infrastructure/__pycache__/proxy.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/infrastructure/__pycache__/proxy.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/infrastructure/__pycache__/threadpool.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/infrastructure/__pycache__/threadpool.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/infrastructure/brokers.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/infrastructure/common.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/infrastructure/connectionspool.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/infrastructure/contextmanager.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/infrastructure/errors.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/infrastructure/proxy.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/infrastructure/threadpool.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/system
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/system/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/system/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/system/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/system/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
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/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/system/__pycache__/httplib.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/system/httplib.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/__pycache__/confighelper.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/__pycache__/confighelper.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/__pycache__/filterhelper.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/__pycache__/filterhelper.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/__pycache__/ftphelper.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/__pycache__/ftphelper.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/__pycache__/parsehelper.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/__pycache__/parsehelper.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/__pycache__/reflectionhelper.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/__pycache__/reflectionhelper.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/__pycache__/reporthelper.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/__pycache__/reporthelper.cpython-36.pyc
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/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/__pycache__/urlhelper.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/confighelper.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/filterhelper.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/ftphelper.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/parsehelper.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/reflectionhelper.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/reporthelper.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/searchhelper.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/timerhelper.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/utils/urlhelper.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/version.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/web
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/web/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/web/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/web/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/web/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/web/__pycache__/connection.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/web/__pycache__/connection.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/web/__pycache__/proxyhttpsconnection.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/web/__pycache__/proxyhttpsconnection.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/web/connection.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/web/proxyhttpsconnection.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/xml
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/xml/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/xml/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/xml/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/xml/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/xml/__pycache__/params.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/xml/__pycache__/params.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/xml/__pycache__/report.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/xml/__pycache__/report.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/xml/params.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/redhat_support_lib/xml/report.py
/usr/share/doc/redhat-support-lib-python
/usr/share/doc/redhat-support-lib-python/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/redhat-support-lib-python/README

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install redhat-support-lib-python on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.