How To Install perl-CGI.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-CGI.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. perl-CGI.noarch is Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses

Introduction

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

What is `perl-CGI.noarch`

CGI.pm is a stable, complete and mature solution for processing and preparing HTTP requests and responses. Major features including processing form submissions, file uploads, reading and writing cookies, query string generation and manipulation, and processing and preparing HTTP headers. Some HTML generation utilities are included as well. CGI.pm performs very well in in a vanilla CGI.pm environment and also comes with built-in support for mod_perl and mod_perl2 as well as FastCGI.

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

Install perl-CGI.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-CGI.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-CGI.noarch

How To Uninstall perl-CGI.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove perl-CGI.noarch

perl-CGI.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/perl-CGI-3.63
/usr/share/doc/perl-CGI-3.63/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-CGI-3.63/README
/usr/share/doc/perl-CGI-3.63/cgi_docs.html
/usr/share/man/man3/CGI.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/CGI::Apache.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/CGI::Carp.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/CGI::Cookie.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/CGI::Fast.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/CGI::Pretty.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/CGI::Push.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/CGI::Switch.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/CGI::Util.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CGI
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CGI.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CGI/Apache.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CGI/Carp.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CGI/Cookie.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CGI/Fast.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CGI/Pretty.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CGI/Push.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CGI/Switch.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CGI/Util.pm

References

perl-CGI.noarch website

Summary

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