How To Install python3-setproctitle on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-setproctitle on Rocky Linux 8. python3-setproctitle is Python module to customize a process title

Introduction

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

What is `python3-setproctitle`

Python module allowing a process to change its title as displayed by system tool such as ps and top. It’s useful in multi-process systems, allowing to identify tasks each forked process is busy with. This technique has been used by PostgreSQL and OpenSSH. It’s based on PostgreSQL implementation which has proven to be portable.

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

Install python3-setproctitle 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-setproctitle using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install python3-setproctitle

Install python3-setproctitle 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-setproctitle using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python3-setproctitle

How To Uninstall python3-setproctitle on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove python3-setproctitle

python3-setproctitle Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0/7b22523dfbdd9ebe4ef754a07641c06843869b
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/setproctitle-1.1.10-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/setproctitle-1.1.10-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/setproctitle-1.1.10-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/setproctitle-1.1.10-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/setproctitle-1.1.10-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/setproctitle.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
/usr/share/doc/python3-setproctitle
/usr/share/doc/python3-setproctitle/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/python3-setproctitle/README.rst

References

python3-setproctitle website

Summary

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