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

Introduction

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

What is python-appindicator.x86_64

This package contains the Python 2 bindings for the appindicator library.

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

Install python-appindicator.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 python-appindicator.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python-appindicator.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove python-appindicator.x86_64

python-appindicator.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/appindicator
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/appindicator/__init__.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/appindicator/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/appindicator/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/appindicator/_appindicator.so
/usr/share/pygtk
/usr/share/pygtk/2.0
/usr/share/pygtk/2.0/defs
/usr/share/pygtk/2.0/defs/appindicator.defs

References

• python-appindicator.x86_64 website

Summary

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