How To Install sip on CentOS 8

sip is SIP - Python/C++ Bindings Generator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sip on CentOS 8.

What is `sip`

SIP is a tool for generating bindings for C++ classes so that they can be accessed as normal Python classes. SIP takes many of its ideas from SWIG but, because it is specifically designed for C++ and Python, is able to generate tighter bindings. SIP is so called because it is a small SWIG. SIP was originally designed to generate Python bindings for KDE and so has explicit support for the signal slot mechanism used by the Qt/KDE class libraries. However, SIP can be used to generate Python bindings for any C++ class library.

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

Install sip 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 sip using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sip

Install sip 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 sip using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sip

How To Uninstall sip on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the sip package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove sip

sip Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/python3-sip
/usr/bin/sip
/usr/bin/sip-pyqt5
/usr/bin/sip-wx
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a/0dfdd9c575fa83ba9cc27333092d2bf697079a
/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.sip
/usr/share/doc/sip
/usr/share/doc/sip/README
/usr/share/licenses/sip
/usr/share/licenses/sip/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/sip/LICENSE-GPL2
/usr/share/licenses/sip/LICENSE-GPL3
/usr/share/sip

References

sip website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sip on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.