How To Install python36-libarchive-c on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python36-libarchive-c on CentOS 7.

What is python36-libarchive-c

The libarchive library provides a flexible interface for reading and writing archives in various formats such as tar and cpio. libarchive also supports reading and writing archives compressed using various compression filters such as gzip and bzip2. A Python interface to libarchive. It uses the standard ctypes module to dynamically load and access the C library.

We can use yum or dnf to install python36-libarchive-c on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python36-libarchive-c.

Install python36-libarchive-c on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install python36-libarchive-c using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python36-libarchive-c

Install python36-libarchive-c 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 python36-libarchive-c using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install python36-libarchive-c

How To Uninstall python36-libarchive-c on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the python36-libarchive-c package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove python36-libarchive-c

References

• python36-libarchive-c website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python36-libarchive-c on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.