How To Install python-colorama on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-colorama on CentOS 7.

What is python-colorama

Makes ANSI escape character sequences, for producing colored terminal text and cursor positioning, work under MS Windows. ANSI escape character sequences have long been used to produce colored terminal text and cursor positioning on Unix and Macs. Colorama makes this work on Windows, too. It also provides some shortcuts to help generate ANSI sequences, and works fine in conjunction with any other ANSI sequence generation library, such as Termcolor.

We can use yum or dnf to install python-colorama on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python-colorama.

Install python-colorama on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install python-colorama

Install python-colorama 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.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install python-colorama

How To Uninstall python-colorama on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the python-colorama package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove python-colorama

References

• python-colorama website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-colorama on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.