How To Install python3-future on CentOS 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-future on CentOS 8.

What is python3-future

future is the missing compatibility layer between Python 2 and Python 3. It allows you to use a single, clean Python 3.x-compatible codebase to support both Python 2 and Python 3 with minimal overhead. It provides future and past packages with backports and forward ports of features from Python 3 and 2. It also comes with futurize and pasteurize, customized 2to3-based scripts that helps you to convert either Py2 or Py3 code easily to support both Python 2 and 3 in a single clean Py3-style codebase, module by module.

We can use yum or dnf to install python3-future on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python3-future.

Install python3-future on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install python3-future using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python3-future

Install python3-future on CentOS 8 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 python3-future using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install python3-future

How To Uninstall python3-future on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the python3-future package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove python3-future

References

• python3-future website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-future on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.