Perl modules is not getting installed in Amazon Linux AMI ( centOs 6.5)

Question

I am configuring cloudwatch custom metrics which requires some perl modules to be installed.

Here is the command I am trying to install the perl modules.

yum install perl-Switch perl-Sys-Syslog perl-LWP-Protocol-http

I am running CentOs 6.5 on AWS. Here is the response I am getting.

    [root@ip-10-21-1-38 aws-scripts-mon]# yum install perl-Switch perl-Sys-Syslog perl-     LWP-Protocol-http
    Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto
    Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
    * base: mirror.es.its.nyu.edu
    * extras: mirror.ash.fastserv.com
    * updates: mirror.ash.fastserv.com
    Setting up Install Process
    No package perl-Switch available.
    No package perl-Sys-Syslog available.
    No package perl-LWP-Protocol-http available.
    Error: Nothing to do
    You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root

Please do help with installing perl modules.

Solution

These are not OS packages but rather modules provide for Perl, most modules can be gotten through CPAN.

Have a look here for details on how to do this. Its a fairly easy process.

Comments

[Michael Hampton]

These packages are in EL7, but not in EL6.