How To Install perl-macros.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-macros.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is perl-macros.x86_64
Macros for rpmbuild are needed during build of srpm in koji. This sub-package must be installed into buildroot, so it will be needed by perl. Perl is needed because of git.
We can use yum to install perl-macros.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-macros.x86_64.
Install perl-macros.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-macros.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install perl-macros.x86_64
How To Uninstall perl-macros.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the perl-macros.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove perl-macros.x86_64
perl-macros.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/etc/rpm/macros.perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-macros.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.