How To Install perl-File-Which.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-File-Which.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. perl-File-Which.noarch is Portable implementation of the ‘which’ utility

Introduction

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

What is `perl-File-Which.noarch`

File can be used to get the absolute filename of an executable program installed somewhere in your PATH, or just check for its existence. It includes the command-line utility ‘pwhich’ which has the same function as ‘which’.

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

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

sudo yum -y install perl-File-Which.noarch

How To Uninstall perl-File-Which.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove perl-File-Which.noarch

perl-File-Which.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/pwhich
/usr/share/doc/perl-File-Which-1.09
/usr/share/doc/perl-File-Which-1.09/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-File-Which-1.09/README
/usr/share/man/man1/pwhich.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/File::Which.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/File
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/File/Which.pm

References

perl-File-Which.noarch website

Summary

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