How To Install python-flake8 on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-flake8 on CentOS 7.
What is python-flake8
Flake8 is a wrapper around these tools - PyFlakes - pep8 - Ned’s McCabe script Flake8 runs all tools by launching the single ‘flake8’ script, but ignores pep8 and PyFlakes extended options and just uses defaults. It displays the warnings in a per-file, merged output. It also adds a few features - files that contains with this header are skipped - lines that contains a “# NOQA” comment at the end will not issue a warning. - a Mercurial hook. - a McCabe complexity checker.
We can use yum or dnf to install python-flake8 on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python-flake8.
Install python-flake8 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-flake8 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install python-flake8
Install python-flake8 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-flake8 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install python-flake8
How To Uninstall python-flake8 on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the python-flake8 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove python-flake8
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-flake8 on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
