How To Install perl-Text-Diff.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Text-Diff.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. perl-Text-Diff.noarch is Perform diffs on files and record sets

Introduction

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

What is `perl-Text-Diff.noarch`

Text utility. It is not anywhere near as feature complete as GNU diff, but it is better integrated with Perl and available on all platforms. It is often faster than shelling out to a system’s diff executable for small files, and generally slower on larger files.

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

Install perl-Text-Diff.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-Text-Diff.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-Text-Diff.noarch

How To Uninstall perl-Text-Diff.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the perl-Text-Diff.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove perl-Text-Diff.noarch

perl-Text-Diff.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/perl-Text-Diff-1.41
/usr/share/doc/perl-Text-Diff-1.41/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-Text-Diff-1.41/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/perl-Text-Diff-1.41/README
/usr/share/man/man3/Text::Diff.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Text::Diff::Config.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Text::Diff::Table.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Text
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Text/Diff
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Text/Diff.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Text/Diff/Config.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Text/Diff/Table.pm

References

perl-Text-Diff.noarch website

Summary

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