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I am running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9, and I cannot find the RPM Python bindings?

I am trying to install rpm-py-installer-0.7.0 and it throws an error:

RPM Python binding on system Python should be installed manually.
Install the proper RPM package of python,2,3-rpm.

So, I searched the Internet, and found RPM Python bindings, but nothing for RHEL 6...
I tried using pip and yum to install python2-rpm, but it found nothing (the package does not exist).

I need to be able to install python2-rpm so that I can get rpm-py-installer installed.

Here is the code that is failing:

if self.python.is_system_python():
 if self.python.is_python_binding_installed():
 message = '''
RPM Python binding already installed on system Python.
Nothing to do.
'''
 Log.info(message)
 raise InstallSkipError(message)
 else:
 message = '''
RPM Python binding on system Python should be installed manually.
Install the proper RPM package of python,2,3-rpm.
'''
 raise InstallError(message)

Basically...

self.python.is_python_binding_installed()

... is returning false.

I assume you can install the package with following command.

yum localinstall rpm-py-installer-0.7.0

In normally, as you know, yum util is getting packages from repositories throughthe network.

But in this case, you have already downloaded rpm-py-installer-0.7.0 from internet to your server, so, designate localinstall command to install from local directory.

However, dependency related errors may occur.

I could not find 'rpm-python' package for pip anywhere, but I found a wheel for just 'rpm'.
Here is the link: https://pypi.org/project/rpm/#description

Just install that, then re-install 'rpm-py-installer' and it should have no more errors!

Thanks.
Erik W.