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

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Digest.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. perl-Digest.noarch is Modules that calculate message digests

Introduction

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

What is `perl-Digest.noarch`

The Digest or “hashes”, of some data, called a message. The digest is (usually) some small/fixed size string. The actual size of the digest depend of the algorithm used. The message is simply a sequence of arbitrary bytes or bits.

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

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

sudo yum -y install perl-Digest.noarch

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

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

sudo yum remove perl-Digest.noarch

perl-Digest.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/perl-Digest-1.17
/usr/share/doc/perl-Digest-1.17/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-Digest-1.17/README
/usr/share/doc/perl-Digest-1.17/digest-bench
/usr/share/man/man3/Digest.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Digest::base.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Digest::file.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Digest
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Digest.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Digest/base.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Digest/file.pm

References

perl-Digest.noarch website

Summary

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