How To Install python2-configargparse on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-configargparse on CentOS 7.
What is python2-configargparse
Applications with more than a handful of user-settable options are best configured through a combination of command line args, config files, hard coded defaults, and in some cases, environment variables. Python’s command line parsing modules such as argparse have very limited support for config files and environment variables, so this module extends argparse to add these features.
We can use yum or dnf to install python2-configargparse on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python2-configargparse.
Install python2-configargparse on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install python2-configargparse using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install python2-configargparse
Install python2-configargparse 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 python2-configargparse using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install python2-configargparse
How To Uninstall python2-configargparse on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the python2-configargparse package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove python2-configargparse
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-configargparse on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
