How To Install perl-Sys-Guestfs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Sys-Guestfs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. perl-Sys-Guestfs.x86_64 is Perl bindings for libguestfs (Sys

Introduction

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

What is `perl-Sys-Guestfs.x86_64`

perl-Sys-Guestfs contains Perl bindings for libguestfs (Sys

We can use yum to install perl-Sys-Guestfs.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-Sys-Guestfs.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install perl-Sys-Guestfs.x86_64

How To Uninstall perl-Sys-Guestfs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove perl-Sys-Guestfs.x86_64

perl-Sys-Guestfs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Sys
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Sys/Guestfs.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Sys
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Sys/Guestfs
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Sys/Guestfs/Guestfs.so
/usr/share/doc/perl-Sys-Guestfs-1.36.10
/usr/share/doc/perl-Sys-Guestfs-1.36.10/create_disk.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Sys-Guestfs-1.36.10/inspect_vm.pl
/usr/share/man/man3/Sys::Guestfs.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/guestfs-perl.3.gz

References

perl-Sys-Guestfs.x86_64 website

Summary

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