How To Install python2-appdirs on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-appdirs on Rocky Linux 8. python2-appdirs is Python module for determining platform-specific directories

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-appdirs on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `python2-appdirs`

A small Python 2 module for determining appropriate " + " platform-specific directories, e.g. a “user data dir”.

We can use yum or dnf to install python2-appdirs on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python2-appdirs.

Install python2-appdirs on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install python2-appdirs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install python2-appdirs

Install python2-appdirs on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install python2-appdirs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python2-appdirs

How To Uninstall python2-appdirs on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the python2-appdirs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove python2-appdirs

python2-appdirs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/appdirs-1.4.3.dist-info
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/appdirs-1.4.3.dist-info/DESCRIPTION.rst
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/appdirs-1.4.3.dist-info/INSTALLER
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/appdirs-1.4.3.dist-info/METADATA
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/appdirs-1.4.3.dist-info/RECORD
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/appdirs-1.4.3.dist-info/WHEEL
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/appdirs-1.4.3.dist-info/metadata.json
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/appdirs-1.4.3.dist-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/appdirs.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/appdirs.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/appdirs.pyo
/usr/share/doc/python2-appdirs
/usr/share/doc/python2-appdirs/CHANGES.rst
/usr/share/doc/python2-appdirs/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/python2-appdirs
/usr/share/licenses/python2-appdirs/LICENSE.txt

References

python2-appdirs website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-appdirs on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.