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

In this tutorial we learn how to install uuid-perl.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. uuid-perl.x86_64 is Perl support for Universally Unique Identifier library

Introduction

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

What is `uuid-perl.x86_64`

Perl OSSP uuid modules, which includes a Data

We can use yum to install uuid-perl.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install uuid-perl.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install uuid-perl.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove uuid-perl.x86_64

uuid-perl.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Data
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Data/UUID.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Data/UUID.pod
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/OSSP
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/OSSP/uuid.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/OSSP/uuid.pod
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/OSSP
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/OSSP/uuid
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/OSSP/uuid/uuid.so
/usr/share/man/man3/Data::UUID.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/OSSP::uuid.3.gz

References

uuid-perl.x86_64 website

Summary

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