How To Install perl-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. perl-libs.x86_64 is The libraries for the perl runtime

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `perl-libs.x86_64`

The libraries for the perl runtime

We can use yum to install perl-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-libs.x86_64.

Install perl-libs.x86_64 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-libs.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-libs.x86_64

How To Uninstall perl-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the perl-libs.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove perl-libs.x86_64

perl-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/perl5
/usr/lib64/perl5/CORE/libperl.so
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto

References

perl-libs.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.