How To Install Pyserial On CentOS 6?

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I tried yum import pyserial yum provides ‘*serial*’
gave me distribution-gpg-keys-copr-1.15-1.el6.noarch : GPG keys for Copr projects Repo : epel Matched from:
Filename : /usr/share/distribution-gpg-keys/copr/copr-ifas-pyserial.gpg

python2-ivi-0.14.9-3.el6.noarch : %{sum}
Repo : epel Matched from:
Filename : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ivi/interface/pyserial.pyo Filename : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ivi/interface/pyserial.pyc Filename : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ivi/interface/pyserial.py

yum install python2-ivi-0.14.9-3.el6.noarch
“worked”, but didn’t help:
[hennebry@localhost ~]$ python Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Aug 18 2016, 15:13:37)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-17)] on linux2
Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information. Traceback (most recent call last):
File ““, line 1, in
ImportError: No module named pyserial Traceback (most recent call last):
File ““, line 1, in
ImportError: No module named serial

What happened?
How do I get pyerial?

One thought on - How To Install Pyserial On CentOS 6?

  • Based on the Python IVI readme (http://alexforencich.com/wiki/en/python-ivi/readme), it looks like this library is able to use the actual PySerial library but doesn’t provide it. You may need to install that using pip if it’s not available in EPEL. The ivi RPM may not provide pyserial because it’s not a required library.

    You may also just want to search EPEL for serial.py, which is the ultimate name of the PySerial library on disk.

    –keith