How To Install python2-blockdev.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-blockdev.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. python2-blockdev.x86_64 is Python2 gobject-introspection bindings for libblockdev

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-blockdev.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `python2-blockdev.x86_64`

This package contains enhancements to the gobject-introspection bindings for libblockdev in Python2.

We can use yum to install python2-blockdev.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python2-blockdev.x86_64.

Install python2-blockdev.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 python2-blockdev.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python2-blockdev.x86_64

How To Uninstall python2-blockdev.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the python2-blockdev.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove python2-blockdev.x86_64

python2-blockdev.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gi/overrides/BlockDev.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gi/overrides/BlockDev.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gi/overrides/BlockDev.pyo

References

python2-blockdev.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-blockdev.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.