How To Install perl-Test-Taint on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Test-Taint
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is perl-Test-Taint
Tainted data is data that comes from an unsafe source, such as the command line, or, in the case of web apps, any GET or POST transactions. Read the perlsec man page for details on why tainted data is bad, and how to untaint the data. When you’re writing unit tests for code that deals with tainted data, you’ll want to have a way to provide tainted data for your routines to handle, and easy ways to check and report on the taintedness of your data, in standard Test
We can use yum
or dnf
to install perl-Test-Taint
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-Test-Taint.
Install perl-Test-Taint on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install perl-Test-Taint
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install perl-Test-Taint
Install perl-Test-Taint on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install perl-Test-Taint
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install perl-Test-Taint
How To Uninstall perl-Test-Taint on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the perl-Test-Taint
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove perl-Test-Taint
perl-Test-Taint Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f/11ac69a64f32dffac645608a216caaa71dac8a
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Test
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Test/Taint.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Test
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Test/Taint
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Test/Taint/Taint.so
/usr/share/doc/perl-Test-Taint
/usr/share/doc/perl-Test-Taint/Changes
/usr/share/man/man3/Test::Taint.3pm.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Test-Taint
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.