How To Install perl-Text-CharWidth.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Text-CharWidth.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. perl-Text-CharWidth.x86_64 is Get number of occupied columns of a string on terminal

Introduction

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

What is `perl-Text-CharWidth.x86_64`

This is a module to provide equivalent feature as wcwidth(3) and wcswidth(3). This also provides mblen(3) equivalent subroutine.

We can use yum to install perl-Text-CharWidth.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-Text-CharWidth.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install perl-Text-CharWidth.x86_64

How To Uninstall perl-Text-CharWidth.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove perl-Text-CharWidth.x86_64

perl-Text-CharWidth.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Text
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Text/CharWidth.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Text
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Text/CharWidth
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Text/CharWidth/CharWidth.so
/usr/share/doc/perl-Text-CharWidth-0.04
/usr/share/doc/perl-Text-CharWidth-0.04/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-Text-CharWidth-0.04/README
/usr/share/man/man3/Text::CharWidth.3pm.gz

References

perl-Text-CharWidth.x86_64 website

Summary

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