How To Install python3-configargparse on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-configargparse in Fedora 36. python3-configargparse is Python module with support for argparse, config files, and env variables

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-configargparse on Fedora 36.

What is `python3-configargparse`

Applications with more than a handful of user-settable options are best configured through a combination of command line args, config files, hard coded defaults, and in some cases, environment variables. Python’s command line parsing modules such as argparse have very limited support for config files and environment variables, so this module extends argparse to add these features.

We can use yum or dnf to install python3-configargparse on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python3-configargparse.

Install python3-configargparse on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install python3-configargparse using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install python3-configargparse

Install python3-configargparse on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install python3-configargparse using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python3-configargparse

How To Uninstall python3-configargparse on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the python3-configargparse package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove python3-configargparse

python3-configargparse Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ConfigArgParse-1.5.2-py3.10.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ConfigArgParse-1.5.2-py3.10.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ConfigArgParse-1.5.2-py3.10.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ConfigArgParse-1.5.2-py3.10.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ConfigArgParse-1.5.2-py3.10.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ConfigArgParse-1.5.2-py3.10.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/__pycache__/configargparse.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/__pycache__/configargparse.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/configargparse.py
/usr/share/doc/python3-configargparse
/usr/share/doc/python3-configargparse/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/python3-configargparse
/usr/share/licenses/python3-configargparse/LICENSE

References

python3-configargparse website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-configargparse on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).