How To Install perl-Encode-Locale.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Encode-Locale.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. perl-Encode-Locale.noarch is Determine the locale encoding

Introduction

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

What is perl-Encode-Locale.noarch

In many applications it’s wise to let Perl use Unicode for the strings it processes. Most of the interfaces Perl has to the outside world is still byte based. Programs therefore needs to decode byte strings that enter the program from the outside and encode them again on the way out.

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

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

sudo yum -y install perl-Encode-Locale.noarch

How To Uninstall perl-Encode-Locale.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove perl-Encode-Locale.noarch

perl-Encode-Locale.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/perl-Encode-Locale-1.03
/usr/share/doc/perl-Encode-Locale-1.03/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-Encode-Locale-1.03/README
/usr/share/man/man3/Encode::Locale.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Encode
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Encode/Locale.pm

References

Summary

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