How To Install perl-Time-HiRes.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Time-HiRes.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. perl-Time-HiRes.x86_64 is High resolution alarm, sleep, gettimeofday, interval timers

Introduction

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

What is `perl-Time-HiRes.x86_64`

The Time nanosleep, ualarm, gettimeofday, and setitimer/getitimer system calls, in other words, high resolution time and timers.

We can use yum to install perl-Time-HiRes.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-Time-HiRes.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install perl-Time-HiRes.x86_64

How To Uninstall perl-Time-HiRes.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove perl-Time-HiRes.x86_64

perl-Time-HiRes.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Time
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Time/HiRes.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Time
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Time/HiRes
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Time/HiRes/HiRes.so
/usr/share/doc/perl-Time-HiRes-1.9725
/usr/share/doc/perl-Time-HiRes-1.9725/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-Time-HiRes-1.9725/README
/usr/share/doc/perl-Time-HiRes-1.9725/TODO
/usr/share/man/man3/Time::HiRes.3pm.gz

References

perl-Time-HiRes.x86_64 website

Summary

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