How To Install smstrade_balance on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install python3-smstrade

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install python3-smstrade

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is smstrade_balance and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install smstrade_balance on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install smstrade_balance on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install smstrade_balance using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install python3-smstrade

Install smstrade_balance on CentOS 8 using yum

Because smstrade_balance is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install smstrade_balance package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python3-smstrade

How to upgrade (update) a single package smstrade_balance using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like smstrade_balance in this example you should use the following command:

yum update python3-smstrade

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade python3-smstrade

How to Upgrade smstrade_balance on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update python3-smstrade

How To remove smstrade_balance from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the smstrade_balance package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove python3-smstrade

Extra info and code examples

python-smstrade lets you send SMS via and retrieve your account balance from the service of smstrade.eu. The package comes with two command line utilities smstrade_send and smstrade_balance to access the library functionality from the command line. The package may be used for alerting in monitoring applications or other scenarios where sending SMS might be useful. This is the Python 3 version of the package.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install smstrade_balance using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the smstrade_balance from CentOS 8.

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