How To Install poetry on Fedora 34

poetry is Python dependency management and packaging made easy

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install poetry on Fedora 34.

What is poetry

Poetry helps you declare, manage and install dependencies of Python projects, ensuring you have the right stack everywhere.

We can use yum or dnf to install poetry on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install poetry.

Install poetry on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install poetry using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install poetry

Install poetry on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install poetry using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install poetry

How To Uninstall poetry on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove poetry

poetry Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/poetry
/usr/bin/poetry
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/poetry
/usr/share/fish
/usr/share/fish/completions
/usr/share/fish/completions/poetry.fish
/usr/share/zsh
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_poetry

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install poetry on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.