How To Install perl-String-Similarity.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

Introduction

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

What is perl-String-Similarity.x86_64

The similarity function calculates the similarity index of its two arguments. A value of 0 means that the strings are entirely different. A value of 1 means that the strings are identical. Everything else lies between 0 and 1 and describes the amount of similarity between the strings.

We can use yum to install perl-String-Similarity.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-String-Similarity.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install perl-String-Similarity.x86_64

How To Uninstall perl-String-Similarity.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove perl-String-Similarity.x86_64

perl-String-Similarity.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/String
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/String/Similarity.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/String
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/String/Similarity
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/String/Similarity/Similarity.so
/usr/share/doc/perl-String-Similarity-1.04
/usr/share/doc/perl-String-Similarity-1.04/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/perl-String-Similarity-1.04/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-String-Similarity-1.04/README
/usr/share/man/man3/String::Similarity.3pm.gz

References

• perl-String-Similarity.x86_64 website

Summary

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