How To Install perl-Test-Taint on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Test-Taint on Rocky Linux 8. perl-Test-Taint is Tools to test taintedness

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.