How To Install perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5.noarch is Provides interoperable MD5-based crypt() functions

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5.noarch`

This package provides MD5-based crypt() functions

We can use yum to install perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5.noarch.

Install perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5.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-Crypt-PasswdMD5.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5.noarch

How To Uninstall perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5.noarch

perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5-1.3
/usr/share/doc/perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5-1.3/README
/usr/share/man/man3/Crypt::PasswdMD5.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Crypt
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Crypt/PasswdMD5.pm

References

perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.