Information about the package, perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata package is designed for, Retrieves data from EC2 Metadata service.
Package Name:
perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata
Summary:
Retrieves data from EC2 Metadata service
Description:
This module queries Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud Metadata service. It also fetches 'user_data' which follows the same API but is often no considered part of the metadata service by Amazons documentation. The module also ships with a command line tool ec2meta that provides the same data.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
0.10
Release:
4.el6
Size:
14 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPL+ or Artistic
Control the perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata
This command will install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata on the server.
yum remove perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata
This command will un-install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata
This command will un-install perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata when using the -y flag.
yum update perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata
This command will update perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata
This command will update perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata when using the -y flag.
yum info perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata
This command will show you core information about the perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata package.
yum deplist perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata
This command will show you the dependencies for perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata
This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-Net-Amazon-EC2-Metadata. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.