How To Install perl-Archive-Extract.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Archive-Extract.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. perl-Archive-Extract.noarch is Generic archive extracting mechanism

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Archive-Extract.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `perl-Archive-Extract.noarch`

Archive allows you to extract any archive file of the type .tar, .tar.gz, .gz, .Z, tar.bz2, .tbz, .bz2, .zip, .xz,, .txz, .tar.xz, or .lzma without having to worry how it does so, or use different interfaces for each type by using either perl modules, or command-line tools on your system.

We can use yum to install perl-Archive-Extract.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-Archive-Extract.noarch.

Install perl-Archive-Extract.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install perl-Archive-Extract.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-Archive-Extract.noarch

How To Uninstall perl-Archive-Extract.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the perl-Archive-Extract.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove perl-Archive-Extract.noarch

perl-Archive-Extract.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/perl-Archive-Extract-0.68
/usr/share/doc/perl-Archive-Extract-0.68/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/perl-Archive-Extract-0.68/README
/usr/share/man/man3/Archive::Extract.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Archive
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Archive/Extract.pm

References

perl-Archive-Extract.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Archive-Extract.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.