How To Install python3-utmp on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-utmp in Fedora 36. python3-utmp is Python modules for umtp records

Introduction

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

What is `python3-utmp`

python-utmp consists of three modules, providing access to utmp records. It is quite difficult to access utmp record portably, because every UNIX has different structure of utmp files. Currently, python-utmp works on platforms which provide getutent, getutid, getutline, pututline, setutent, endutent and utmpname functions (such as GNU systems (Linux and hurd) and System V unices) and on BSD systems using simple utmp structure.

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

Install python3-utmp 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-utmp using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install python3-utmp

Install python3-utmp 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-utmp using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python3-utmp

How To Uninstall python3-utmp on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove python3-utmp

python3-utmp Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d/109562d69bf6d2c24314951554e55a3c8798b4
/usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages/UTMPCONST.py
/usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages/__pycache__
/usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages/__pycache__/UTMPCONST.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages/__pycache__/UTMPCONST.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages/__pycache__/utmp.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages/__pycache__/utmp.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages/utmp.py
/usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages/utmpaccess.so
/usr/share/doc/python3-utmp
/usr/share/doc/python3-utmp/README
/usr/share/doc/python3-utmp/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/python3-utmp
/usr/share/licenses/python3-utmp/COPYING

References

python3-utmp website

Summary

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