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

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Socket.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. perl-Socket.x86_64 is Networking constants and support functions

Introduction

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

What is `perl-Socket.x86_64`

This module provides a variety of constants, structure manipulators and other functions related to socket-based networking. The values and functions provided are useful when used in conjunction with Perl core functions such as socket(), setsockopt() and bind(). It also provides several other support functions, mostly for dealing with conversions of network addresses between human-readable and native binary forms, and for hostname resolver operations.

We can use yum to install perl-Socket.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-Socket.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install perl-Socket.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove perl-Socket.x86_64

perl-Socket.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Socket.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Socket
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Socket/Socket.so
/usr/share/doc/perl-Socket-2.010
/usr/share/doc/perl-Socket-2.010/Artistic
/usr/share/doc/perl-Socket-2.010/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-Socket-2.010/Copying
/usr/share/doc/perl-Socket-2.010/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man3/Socket.3pm.gz

References

perl-Socket.x86_64 website

Summary

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