How To Install python3-wikipedia on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-wikipedia in Fedora 36. python3-wikipedia is Wikipedia API for Python

Introduction

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

What is python3-wikipedia

Search Wikipedia, get article summaries, get data like links and images from a page, and more.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install python3-wikipedia

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

sudo yum -y install python3-wikipedia

How To Uninstall python3-wikipedia on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove python3-wikipedia

python3-wikipedia Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wikipedia
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wikipedia-1.4.5-py3.10.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wikipedia-1.4.5-py3.10.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wikipedia-1.4.5-py3.10.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wikipedia-1.4.5-py3.10.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wikipedia-1.4.5-py3.10.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wikipedia-1.4.5-py3.10.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wikipedia/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wikipedia/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wikipedia/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wikipedia/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wikipedia/__pycache__/exceptions.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wikipedia/__pycache__/exceptions.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wikipedia/__pycache__/util.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wikipedia/__pycache__/util.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wikipedia/__pycache__/wikipedia.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wikipedia/__pycache__/wikipedia.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wikipedia/exceptions.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wikipedia/util.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wikipedia/wikipedia.py
/usr/share/doc/python3-wikipedia
/usr/share/doc/python3-wikipedia/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/python3-wikipedia
/usr/share/licenses/python3-wikipedia/LICENSE

References

Summary

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