Chapter 2. Installation
This chapter guides you through the steps to install AMQ Python in your environment.
2.1. Prerequisites
- You must have a subscription to access AMQ release files and repositories.
- To install packages on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you must register your system.
- To use AMQ Python, you must install Python in your environment.
2.2. Installing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Procedure
Use the
subscription-manager
command to subscribe to the required package repositories. Replace<version>
with2
for the main release stream or2.9
for the long term support release stream. If necessary, replace<variant>
with the value for your variant of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (for example,server
orworkstation
).Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
$ sudo subscription-manager repos --enable=amq-clients-<version>-for-rhel-7-<variant>-rpms
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
$ sudo subscription-manager repos --enable=amq-clients-<version>-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms
Use the
yum
command to install the packages.Main release stream
$ sudo yum install python3-qpid-proton python-qpid-proton-docs
AMQ Clients 2.9 long term support stream
$ sudo yum install python-qpid-proton python-qpid-proton-docs
For more information about using packages, see Appendix B, Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages.
2.3. Installing on Microsoft Windows
Procedure
- Open a browser and log in to the Red Hat Customer Portal Product Downloads page at access.redhat.com/downloads.
- Locate the Red Hat AMQ Clients entry in the INTEGRATION AND AUTOMATION category.
- Click Red Hat AMQ Clients. The Software Downloads page opens.
Download the AMQ Clients 2.10.0 Python .whl file for your Python version.
Python 3.6
python_qpid_proton-0.35.0-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl
Python 3.8
python_qpid_proton-0.35.0-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl
Open a command prompt window and use the
pip install
command to install the .whl file.Python 3.6
> pip install python_qpid_proton-0.35.0-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl
Python 3.8
> pip install python_qpid_proton-0.35.0-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl