How To Install perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML.noarch is Read and write a subset of YAML for CPAN Meta files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML.noarch`

This module implements a subset of the YAML specification for use in reading and writing CPAN metadata files like META.yml and MYMETA.yml. It should not be used for any other general YAML parsing or generation task.

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

Install perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML.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 perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML.noarch

How To Uninstall perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML.noarch

perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML-0.008
/usr/share/doc/perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML-0.008/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML-0.008/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML-0.008/README
/usr/share/man/man3/CPAN::Meta::YAML.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CPAN
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CPAN/Meta
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CPAN/Meta/YAML.pm

References

perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.