How To Install libuser-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libuser-python.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libuser-python.x86_64 is Python bindings for the libuser library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libuser-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libuser-python.x86_64`

The libuser-python package contains the Python bindings for the libuser library, which provides a Python API for manipulating and administering user and group accounts.

We can use yum to install libuser-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libuser-python.x86_64.

Install libuser-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libuser-python.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libuser-python.x86_64

How To Uninstall libuser-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libuser-python.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libuser-python.x86_64

libuser-python.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libusermodule.so
/usr/share/doc/libuser-python-0.60
/usr/share/doc/libuser-python-0.60/modules.txt

References

libuser-python.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libuser-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.