How To Install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata in Fedora 36. perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata is Retrieves data from EC2 Metadata service

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata on Fedora 36.

What is perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata

This module queries Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud Metadata service. It also fetches ‘user_data’ which follows the same API but is often no considered part of the metadata service by Amazons documentation. The module also ships with a command line tool ec2meta that provides the same data.

We can use yum or dnf to install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata.

Install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata

Install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata

How To Uninstall perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata

perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/ec2meta
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata/README
/usr/share/man/man1/ec2meta.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Net::Amazon::EC2::Metadata.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Net
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Net/Amazon
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Net/Amazon/EC2
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Net/Amazon/EC2/Metadata.pm

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).