How To Install perl-PAR-Dist.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-PAR-Dist.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. perl-PAR-Dist.noarch is Toolkit for creating and manipulating Perl PAR distributions

Introduction

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

What is `perl-PAR-Dist.noarch`

This module creates and manipulates PAR distributions. They are architecture- specific PAR files, containing everything under blib/ of CPAN distributions after their make or Build stage, a META.yml describing metadata of the original CPAN distribution, and a MANIFEST detailing all files within it. Digitally signed PAR distributions will also contain a SIGNATURE file.

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

Install perl-PAR-Dist.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-PAR-Dist.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-PAR-Dist.noarch

How To Uninstall perl-PAR-Dist.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the perl-PAR-Dist.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove perl-PAR-Dist.noarch

perl-PAR-Dist.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/perl-PAR-Dist-0.49
/usr/share/doc/perl-PAR-Dist-0.49/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-PAR-Dist-0.49/README
/usr/share/man/man3/PAR::Dist.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/PAR
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/PAR/Dist.pm

References

perl-PAR-Dist.noarch website

Summary

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