How To Install perl-VM-EC2 on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-VM-EC2 on CentOS 7. perl-VM-EC2 is Perl interface to Amazon EC2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-VM-EC2 on CentOS 7.

What is perl-VM-EC2

This is an interface to the 2014-05-01 version of the Amazon AWS API (https to the new tag and metadata interface that is not currently supported by Net with an extension mechanism for the API. This library will also support the Open Stack open source cloud (https

We can use yum or dnf to install perl-VM-EC2 on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-VM-EC2.

Install perl-VM-EC2 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-VM-EC2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-VM-EC2

Install perl-VM-EC2 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-VM-EC2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-VM-EC2

How To Uninstall perl-VM-EC2 on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the perl-VM-EC2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove perl-VM-EC2

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-VM-EC2 on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.