How To Install python2-psutil on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-psutil
on CentOS 7.
What is python2-psutil
psutil is a module providing an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, memory, disks, network, users) in a portable way by using Python, implementing many functionalities offered by command line tools such as nice, ionice, iostat, iotop, uptime, pidof, tty, who, taskset, pmap.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install python2-psutil
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python2-psutil.
Install python2-psutil 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-psutil
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install python2-psutil
Install python2-psutil 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-psutil
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install python2-psutil
How To Uninstall python2-psutil on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the python2-psutil
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove python2-psutil
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-psutil
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.