How To Install python2-shapely on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-shapely on CentOS 7.
What is python2-shapely
Shapely is a package for creation, manipulation, and analysis of planar geometry objects – designed especially for developers of cutting edge geographic information systems. In a nutshell Shapely lets you do PostGIS-ish stuff outside the context of a database using idiomatic Python. You can use this package with python-matplotlib and numpy. See README.rst for more information!
We can use yum or dnf to install python2-shapely on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python2-shapely.
Install python2-shapely 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-shapely using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install python2-shapely
Install python2-shapely 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-shapely using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install python2-shapely
How To Uninstall python2-shapely on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the python2-shapely package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove python2-shapely
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-shapely on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
