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

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Test-Taint.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. perl-Test-Taint.x86_64 is Tools to test taintedness

Introduction

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

What is `perl-Test-Taint.x86_64`

Tainted data are data that come from an unsafe source, such as the command line, or, in the case of web apps, any GET or POST transactions. Read the perlsec man page for details on why tainted data are bad, and how to untaint the data. When you’re writing unit tests for code that deals with tainted data, you’ll want to have a way to provide tainted data for your routines to handle, and easy ways to check and report on the taintedness of your data, in standard Test

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

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

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

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

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

sudo yum remove perl-Test-Taint.x86_64

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

/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Test
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Test/Taint.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Test
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Test/Taint
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Test/Taint/Taint.so
/usr/share/doc/perl-Test-Taint-1.06
/usr/share/doc/perl-Test-Taint-1.06/Changes
/usr/share/man/man3/Test::Taint.3pm.gz

References

perl-Test-Taint.x86_64 website

Summary

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