How To Install perl-File-Which on CentOS 8

perl-File-Which is Portable implementation of the ‘which’ utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-File-Which on CentOS 8.

What is perl-File-Which

File be used to get the absolute filename of an executable program installed somewhere in your PATH, or just check for its existence.

We can use yum or dnf to install perl-File-Which on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-File-Which.

Install perl-File-Which on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install perl-File-Which using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-File-Which

Install perl-File-Which on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install perl-File-Which using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-File-Which

How To Uninstall perl-File-Which on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the perl-File-Which package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove perl-File-Which

perl-File-Which Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/doc/perl-File-Which
/usr/share/doc/perl-File-Which/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-File-Which/README
/usr/share/man/man3/File::Which.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/File
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/File/Which.pm

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-File-Which on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.