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

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-core.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. perl-core.x86_64 is Base perl metapackage

Introduction

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

What is `perl-core.x86_64`

A metapackage which requires all of the perl bits and modules in the upstream tarball from perl.org.

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

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

sudo yum -y install perl-core.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove perl-core.x86_64

perl-core.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

References

perl-core.x86_64 website

Summary

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