How To Install perl-IO-Socket-IP.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-IO-Socket-IP.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. perl-IO-Socket-IP.noarch is Drop-in replacement for IO

Introduction

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

What is `perl-IO-Socket-IP.noarch`

This module provides a protocol-independent way to use IPv4 and IPv6 sockets, as a drop-in replacement for IO constructor arguments and methods are provided in a backward-compatible way.

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

Install perl-IO-Socket-IP.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-IO-Socket-IP.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-IO-Socket-IP.noarch

How To Uninstall perl-IO-Socket-IP.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the perl-IO-Socket-IP.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove perl-IO-Socket-IP.noarch

perl-IO-Socket-IP.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Socket-IP-0.21
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Socket-IP-0.21/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Socket-IP-0.21/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Socket-IP-0.21/README
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Socket-IP-0.21/examples
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Socket-IP-0.21/examples/connect.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Socket-IP-0.21/examples/nonblocking_libasyncns.pl
/usr/share/man/man3/IO::Socket::IP.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/IO
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/IO/Socket
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/IO/Socket/IP.pm

References

perl-IO-Socket-IP.noarch website

Summary

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