How To Install python-toscawidgets on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-toscawidgets on CentOS 7. python-toscawidgets is Toolkit to help create widgets for WSGI web apps

Introduction

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

What is python-toscawidgets

ToscaWidgets is a web widget toolkit for Python to aid in the creation, packaging and distribution of common view elements normally used in the web. ToscaWidgets is an almost complete rewrite of the widgets package bundled with TurboGears-1.0. The rewrite’s goal was to decouple the widgets package from CherryPy and TurboGears itself to fit better with TurboGears 2.0 philosophy which is to partition it’s services into independent WSGI components for easier mainteinance and reuse in other Python web applications or frameworks.

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

Install python-toscawidgets 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-toscawidgets using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python-toscawidgets

Install python-toscawidgets 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-toscawidgets using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install python-toscawidgets

How To Uninstall python-toscawidgets on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove python-toscawidgets

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Summary

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