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

In this tutorial we learn how to install openssl-perl.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. openssl-perl.x86_64 is Perl scripts provided with OpenSSL

Introduction

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

What is `openssl-perl.x86_64`

OpenSSL is a toolkit for supporting cryptography. The openssl-perl package provides Perl scripts for converting certificates and keys from other formats to the formats used by the OpenSSL toolkit.

We can use yum to install openssl-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 openssl-perl.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install openssl-perl.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove openssl-perl.x86_64

openssl-perl.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/pki/tls/misc/CA.pl
/etc/pki/tls/misc/tsget
/usr/bin/c_rehash
/usr/share/man/man1/CA.pl.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/c_rehash.1ssl.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tsget.1ssl.gz

References

openssl-perl.x86_64 website

Summary

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