How To Install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata on CentOS 7.
What is perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata
This module queries Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud Metadata service. It also fetches ‘user_data’ which follows the same API but is often no considered part of the metadata service by Amazons documentation. The module also ships with a command line tool ec2meta that provides the same data.
We can use yum or dnf to install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata.
Install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata
Install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata
How To Uninstall perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
