How To Install cowsay.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install cowsay.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. cowsay.noarch is Configurable speaking/thinking cow

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cowsay.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is cowsay.noarch

cowsay is a configurable talking cow, written in Perl. It operates much as the figlet program does, and it written in the same spirit of silliness. It generates ASCII pictures of a cow with a message. It can also generate pictures of other animals.

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

Install cowsay.noarch 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 cowsay.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cowsay.noarch

How To Uninstall cowsay.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the cowsay.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove cowsay.noarch

cowsay.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/animalsay
/usr/bin/cowsay
/usr/bin/cowthink
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/cowsay.bashcomp
/usr/share/cowsay
/usr/share/cowsay/DragonAndCow.pm
/usr/share/cowsay/Example.pm
/usr/share/cowsay/Frogs.pm
/usr/share/cowsay/MechAndCow.pm
/usr/share/cowsay/Stegosaurus.pm
/usr/share/cowsay/TextBalloon.pm
/usr/share/cowsay/TuxStab.pm
/usr/share/cowsay/beavis.zen.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/blowfish.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/bong.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/bud-frogs.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/bunny.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/cheese.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/cower.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/default.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/dragon-and-cow.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/dragon.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/elephant-in-snake.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/elephant.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/eyes.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/flaming-sheep.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/ghostbusters.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/head-in.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/hellokitty.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/kiss.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/kitty.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/koala.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/kosh.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/luke-koala.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/mech-and-cow.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/meow.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/milk.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/moofasa.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/moose.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/mutilated.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/ren.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/satanic.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/sheep.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/skeleton.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/small.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/sodomized.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/stegosaurus.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/stimpy.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/supermilker.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/surgery.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/telebears.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/three-eyes.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/turkey.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/turtle.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/tux.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/udder.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/vader-koala.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/vader.cow
/usr/share/cowsay/www.cow
/usr/share/doc/cowsay-3.04
/usr/share/doc/cowsay-3.04/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/cowsay-3.04/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/cowsay-3.04/README
/usr/share/man/man1/cowsay.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cowthink.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cowsay.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.