How To Install perl-Taint-Runtime.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Taint-Runtime.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. perl-Taint-Runtime.x86_64 is Runtime enable taint checking

Introduction

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

What is perl-Taint-Runtime.x86_64

This module enables run-time taint checking, for cases where the -T switch on the command line is not appropriate or viable. There are a somewhat limited number of legitimate use cases where you should use this module instead of the -T switch. Unless you have a specific and good reason for not using the -T option, you should use the -T option.

We can use yum to install perl-Taint-Runtime.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-Taint-Runtime.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install perl-Taint-Runtime.x86_64

How To Uninstall perl-Taint-Runtime.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove perl-Taint-Runtime.x86_64

perl-Taint-Runtime.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Taint
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Taint/Runtime.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Taint/is_taint_bench.pl
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Taint
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Taint/Runtime
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Taint/Runtime/Runtime.so
/usr/share/doc/perl-Taint-Runtime-0.03
/usr/share/doc/perl-Taint-Runtime-0.03/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-Taint-Runtime-0.03/README
/usr/share/man/man3/Taint::Runtime.3pm.gz

References

Summary

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