How To Install python2-eventlet on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-eventlet on CentOS 7.

What is python2-eventlet

Eventlet is a networking library written in Python. It achieves high scalability by using non-blocking io while at the same time retaining high programmer usability by using coroutines to make the non-blocking io operations appear blocking at the source code level.

We can use yum or dnf to install python2-eventlet on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python2-eventlet.

Install python2-eventlet 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-eventlet using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python2-eventlet

Install python2-eventlet 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-eventlet using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install python2-eventlet

How To Uninstall python2-eventlet on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove python2-eventlet

References

• python2-eventlet website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-eventlet on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.