How To Install python38-idna on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install python38-idna on Rocky Linux 8. python38-idna is Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python38-idna on Rocky Linux 8.

What is python38-idna

A library to support the Internationalised Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) protocol as specified in RFC 5891 <http version of the protocol is often referred to as “IDNA2008” and can produce different results from the earlier standard from 2003. The library is also intended to act as a suitable drop-in replacement for the “encodings.idna” module that comes with the Python standard library but currently only supports the older 2003 specification.

We can use yum or dnf to install python38-idna on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python38-idna.

Install python38-idna 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 python38-idna using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install python38-idna

Install python38-idna 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 python38-idna using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python38-idna

How To Uninstall python38-idna on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the python38-idna package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove python38-idna

python38-idna Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna-2.8-py3.8.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna-2.8-py3.8.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna-2.8-py3.8.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna-2.8-py3.8.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna-2.8-py3.8.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-38.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-38.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna/__pycache__/codec.cpython-38.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna/__pycache__/codec.cpython-38.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna/__pycache__/compat.cpython-38.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna/__pycache__/compat.cpython-38.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna/__pycache__/core.cpython-38.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna/__pycache__/core.cpython-38.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna/__pycache__/idnadata.cpython-38.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna/__pycache__/idnadata.cpython-38.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna/__pycache__/intranges.cpython-38.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna/__pycache__/intranges.cpython-38.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna/__pycache__/package_data.cpython-38.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna/__pycache__/package_data.cpython-38.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna/__pycache__/uts46data.cpython-38.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna/__pycache__/uts46data.cpython-38.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna/codec.py
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna/compat.py
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna/core.py
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna/idnadata.py
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna/intranges.py
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna/package_data.py
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/idna/uts46data.py
/usr/share/doc/python38-idna
/usr/share/doc/python38-idna/HISTORY.rst
/usr/share/doc/python38-idna/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/python38-idna
/usr/share/licenses/python38-idna/LICENSE.rst

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python38-idna on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.