How To Install python-cmdln on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-cmdln
on CentOS 7.
What is python-cmdln
cmdln.py
is an extension of Python’s defaultcmd.py
module that provides “a simple framework for writing line-oriented command interpreters”. The idea (with both cmd.py and cmdln.py) is to be able to quickly build multi-sub-command tools (think cvs or svn) and/or simple interactive shells (think gdb or pdb). Cmdln’s extensions make it more natural to write sub-commands, integrate optparse for simple option processing, and make having good command documentation easier.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install python-cmdln
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python-cmdln.
Install python-cmdln on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install python-cmdln
using yum
by running the following command:
Install python-cmdln on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install python-cmdln
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall python-cmdln on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the python-cmdln
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-cmdln
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.