How To Install perl-homedir.noarch on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-homedir.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.
What is perl-homedir.noarch
perl-homedir configures the system to automatically create a ~/perl5 directory in each user’s $HOME on user login. This allows each user to install CPAN packages via the CPAN to their $HOME, with no additional configuration or privileges, and without installing them system-wide. If you want your users to be able to install and use their own Perl modules, install this package.
We can use yum to install perl-homedir.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-homedir.noarch.
Install perl-homedir.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-homedir.noarch using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install perl-homedir.noarch
How To Uninstall perl-homedir.noarch on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the perl-homedir.noarch package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove perl-homedir.noarch
perl-homedir.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/etc/profile.d/perl-homedir.csh
/etc/profile.d/perl-homedir.sh
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-homedir.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.