How To Install perl-Socket6.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Socket6.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. perl-Socket6.x86_64 is IPv6 related part of the C socket.h defines and structure

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Socket6.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `perl-Socket6.x86_64`

This module supports getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() to intend to enable protocol independent programming. If your environment supports IPv6, IPv6 related defines such as AF_INET6 are included.

We can use yum to install perl-Socket6.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-Socket6.x86_64.

Install perl-Socket6.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-Socket6.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-Socket6.x86_64

How To Uninstall perl-Socket6.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the perl-Socket6.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove perl-Socket6.x86_64

perl-Socket6.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Socket6.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Socket6
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Socket6/Socket6.so
/usr/share/doc/perl-Socket6-0.23
/usr/share/doc/perl-Socket6-0.23/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/perl-Socket6-0.23/README
/usr/share/man/man3/Socket6.3pm.gz

References

perl-Socket6.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Socket6.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.