How To Install python3-libmount on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-libmount on Rocky Linux 8. python3-libmount is Python bindings for the libmount library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-libmount on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `python3-libmount`

The libmount-python package contains a module that permits applications written in the Python programming language to use the interface supplied by the libmount library to work with mount tables (fstab, mountinfo, etc) and mount filesystems.

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

Install python3-libmount on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install python3-libmount

Install python3-libmount on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install python3-libmount

How To Uninstall python3-libmount on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove python3-libmount

python3-libmount Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/69/8e119a81723c13c2c19176c9de8e8a799e39b2
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/libmount
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/libmount/__init__.py
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/libmount/__pycache__
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/libmount/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/libmount/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/libmount/pylibmount.la
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/libmount/pylibmount.so
/usr/share/licenses/python3-libmount
/usr/share/licenses/python3-libmount/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/python3-libmount/COPYING.LGPLv2.1

References

python3-libmount website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-libmount on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.