How To Install python2-futures.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-futures.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. python2-futures.noarch is Backport of the concurrent.futures package from Python 3.2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python2-futures.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `python2-futures.noarch`

The concurrent.futures module provides a high-level interface for asynchronously executing callables.

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

Install python2-futures.noarch 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-futures.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python2-futures.noarch

How To Uninstall python2-futures.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the python2-futures.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove python2-futures.noarch

python2-futures.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/concurrent
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/concurrent/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/concurrent/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/concurrent/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/concurrent/futures
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/concurrent/futures/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/concurrent/futures/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/concurrent/futures/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/concurrent/futures/_base.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/concurrent/futures/_base.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/concurrent/futures/_base.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/concurrent/futures/process.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/concurrent/futures/process.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/concurrent/futures/process.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/concurrent/futures/thread.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/concurrent/futures/thread.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/concurrent/futures/thread.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/futures-3.0.5-py2.7.egg-info
/usr/share/doc/python2-futures-3.0.5
/usr/share/doc/python2-futures-3.0.5/CHANGES
/usr/share/licenses/python2-futures-3.0.5
/usr/share/licenses/python2-futures-3.0.5/LICENSE

References

python2-futures.noarch website

Summary

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