diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdata/libdata-hexdump-perl_0.02.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdata/libdata-hexdump-perl_0.02.bb
index 6ab5a42..44c651c 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdata/libdata-hexdump-perl_0.02.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-perl/recipes-perl/libdata/libdata-hexdump-perl_0.02.bb
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/Data-HexDump-${PV}"
 
-inherit cpan ptest
+inherit cpan ptest update-alternatives
 
 do_install_ptest () {
     install -d ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/t
@@ -31,3 +31,8 @@
 }
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
+
+ALTERNATIVES_PRIORITY = "100"
+ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "hexdump"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[hexdump] = "${bindir}/hexdump"
+