How To Install perl-Perl-OSType.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Perl-OSType.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. perl-Perl-OSType.noarch is Map Perl operating system names to generic types

Introduction

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

What is `perl-Perl-OSType.noarch`

Modules that provide OS-specific behaviors often need to know if the current operating system matches a more generic type of operating systems. For example, ’linux’ is a type of ‘Unix’ operating system and so is ‘freebsd’. This module provides a mapping between an operating system name as given by $^O and a more generic type. The initial version is based on the OS type mappings provided in Module ExtUtils the type ‘Windows’ rather than ‘Win32’).

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

Install perl-Perl-OSType.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-Perl-OSType.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-Perl-OSType.noarch

How To Uninstall perl-Perl-OSType.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the perl-Perl-OSType.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove perl-Perl-OSType.noarch

perl-Perl-OSType.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/perl-Perl-OSType-1.003
/usr/share/doc/perl-Perl-OSType-1.003/CONTRIBUTING
/usr/share/doc/perl-Perl-OSType-1.003/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-Perl-OSType-1.003/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/perl-Perl-OSType-1.003/README
/usr/share/man/man3/Perl::OSType.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl/OSType.pm

References

perl-Perl-OSType.noarch website

Summary

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