How To Install perl-Time-Piece.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Time-Piece.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. perl-Time-Piece.x86_64 is Time objects from localtime and gmtime

Introduction

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

What is `perl-Time-Piece.x86_64`

The Time functions with implementations that return objects. It does so in a backwards compatible manner, so that using localtime or gmtime as documented in perlfunc still behave as expected.

We can use yum to install perl-Time-Piece.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-Time-Piece.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install perl-Time-Piece.x86_64

How To Uninstall perl-Time-Piece.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove perl-Time-Piece.x86_64

perl-Time-Piece.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/perl5/Time/Piece.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/Time/Seconds.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/auto/Time/Piece
/usr/lib64/perl5/auto/Time/Piece/Piece.so
/usr/share/man/man3/Time::Piece.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Time::Seconds.3pm.gz

References

perl-Time-Piece.x86_64 website

Summary

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