How To Install python36-simplejson on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python36-simplejson on CentOS 7.
What is python36-simplejson
simplejson is a simple, fast, complete, correct and extensible JSON <http python3.3+ It is pure Python code with no dependencies, but includes an optional C extension for a serious speed boost. The encoder may be subclassed to provide serialization in any kind of situation, without any special support by the objects to be serialized (somewhat like pickle). The decoder can handle incoming JSON strings of any specified encoding (UTF-8 by default). simplejson is the externally maintained development version of the json library included with Python 2.6 and Python 3.0, but maintains backwards compatibility with Python 2.5. It gets updated more regularly than the json module in the python stdlib.
We can use yum or dnf to install python36-simplejson on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python36-simplejson.
Install python36-simplejson 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-simplejson using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install python36-simplejson
Install python36-simplejson 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-simplejson using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install python36-simplejson
How To Uninstall python36-simplejson on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the python36-simplejson package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove python36-simplejson
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python36-simplejson on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
