How To Install python3-pysocks.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-pysocks.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. python3-pysocks.noarch is A Python SOCKS client module

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-pysocks.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `python3-pysocks.noarch`

A fork of SocksiPy with bug fixes and extra features. Acts as a drop-in replacement to the socket module. Featuring - SOCKS proxy client for Python 2.6 - 3.x - TCP and UDP both supported - HTTP proxy client included but not supported or recommended (you should use urllib2’s or requests’ own HTTP proxy interface) - urllib2 handler included. This package is for Python3 version 3.7 only.

We can use yum to install python3-pysocks.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python3-pysocks.noarch.

Install python3-pysocks.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 python3-pysocks.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python3-pysocks.noarch

How To Uninstall python3-pysocks.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the python3-pysocks.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove python3-pysocks.noarch

python3-pysocks.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PySocks-1.7.1-py3.7.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PySocks-1.7.1-py3.7.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PySocks-1.7.1-py3.7.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PySocks-1.7.1-py3.7.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PySocks-1.7.1-py3.7.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/__pycache__/socks.cpython-37.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/__pycache__/socks.cpython-37.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/__pycache__/sockshandler.cpython-37.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/__pycache__/sockshandler.cpython-37.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/socks.py
/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sockshandler.py
/usr/share/doc/python3-pysocks-1.7.1
/usr/share/doc/python3-pysocks-1.7.1/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/python3-pysocks-1.7.1
/usr/share/licenses/python3-pysocks-1.7.1/LICENSE

References

python3-pysocks.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-pysocks.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.