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

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-CPAN.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. perl-CPAN.noarch is Query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites

Introduction

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

What is `perl-CPAN.noarch`

Query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites.

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

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

sudo yum -y install perl-CPAN.noarch

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

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

sudo yum remove perl-CPAN.noarch

perl-CPAN.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/cpan
/usr/share/man/man1/cpan.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/App::Cpan.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/CPAN.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/CPAN::API::HOWTO.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/CPAN::Debug.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/CPAN::Distroprefs.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/CPAN::FirstTime.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/CPAN::HandleConfig.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/CPAN::Kwalify.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/CPAN::Mirrors.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/CPAN::Nox.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/CPAN::Queue.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/CPAN::Tarzip.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/CPAN::Version.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/App/Cpan.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/API
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/API/HOWTO.pod
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Author.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Bundle.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/CacheMgr.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Complete.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Debug.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/DeferredCode.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Distribution.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Distroprefs.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Distrostatus.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Exception
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Exception/RecursiveDependency.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Exception/blocked_urllist.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Exception/yaml_not_installed.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Exception/yaml_process_error.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/FTP
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/FTP.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/FTP/netrc.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/FirstTime.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/HTTP
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/HTTP/Client.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/HTTP/Credentials.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/HandleConfig.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Index.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/InfoObj.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Kwalify
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Kwalify.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Kwalify/distroprefs.dd
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Kwalify/distroprefs.yml
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/LWP
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/LWP/UserAgent.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Mirrors.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Module.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Nox.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Prompt.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Queue.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Shell.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Tarzip.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/URL.pm
/usr/share/perl5/CPAN/Version.pm

References

perl-CPAN.noarch website

Summary

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