How To Install libcloudflare-client-perl on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcloudflare-client-perl on Ubuntu 20.04. libcloudflare-client-perl is object-orientated interface to the CloudFlare client API

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcloudflare-client-perl on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is libcloudflare-client-perl

libcloudflare-client-perl is:

CloudFlare::Client provides an object-orientated interface to the CloudFlare client API, as described at https://www.cloudflare.com/docs/client-api.html

API actions are mapped to methods of the same name and arguments are passed in as a hash with keys as given in the docs. Successful API calls return the response section from the upstream JSON API. Failures for whatever reason throw exceptions under the CloudFlare::Client::Exception:: namespace.

There are three methods to install libcloudflare-client-perl on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libcloudflare-client-perl Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libcloudflare-client-perl using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libcloudflare-client-perl

Install libcloudflare-client-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libcloudflare-client-perl using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libcloudflare-client-perl

Install libcloudflare-client-perl Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libcloudflare-client-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libcloudflare-client-perl

How To Uninstall libcloudflare-client-perl on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the libcloudflare-client-perl package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libcloudflare-client-perl

Uninstall libcloudflare-client-perl And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libcloudflare-client-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcloudflare-client-perl

Remove libcloudflare-client-perl Configurations and Data

To remove libcloudflare-client-perl configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libcloudflare-client-perl

Remove libcloudflare-client-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libcloudflare-client-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcloudflare-client-perl

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcloudflare-client-perl package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.