How To Install python-elasticsearch on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-elasticsearch on CentOS 7.
What is python-elasticsearch
Low level client for Elasticsearch. It’s goal is to provide common ground for all Elasticsearch-related code in Python. The client’s features include - Translating basic Python data types to and from json - Configurable automatic discovery of cluster nodes - Persistent connections - Load balancing (with pluggable selection strategy) across all available nodes - Failed connection penalization (time based - failed connections won’t be retried until a timeout is reached) - Thread safety - Pluggable architecture
We can use yum or dnf to install python-elasticsearch on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python-elasticsearch.
Install python-elasticsearch 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-elasticsearch using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install python-elasticsearch
Install python-elasticsearch 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-elasticsearch using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install python-elasticsearch
How To Uninstall python-elasticsearch on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the python-elasticsearch package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove python-elasticsearch
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-elasticsearch on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.