How To Install perl-URI-Encode on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-URI-Encode on Rocky Linux 8. perl-URI-Encode is Percent encoding/decoding for URIs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-URI-Encode on Rocky Linux 8.

What is perl-URI-Encode

This module provides a method to encode strings (mainly URLs) into a format which can be pasted into a plain text emails, and that those links are ‘click-able’ by the person reading that email. This can be accomplished by NOT encoding the reserved characters.

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

Install perl-URI-Encode 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-URI-Encode using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-URI-Encode

Install perl-URI-Encode 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-URI-Encode using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-URI-Encode

How To Uninstall perl-URI-Encode on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the perl-URI-Encode package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove perl-URI-Encode

perl-URI-Encode Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/doc/perl-URI-Encode
/usr/share/doc/perl-URI-Encode/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-URI-Encode/README
/usr/share/licenses/perl-URI-Encode
/usr/share/licenses/perl-URI-Encode/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man3/URI::Encode.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/URI
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/URI/Encode.pm

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-URI-Encode on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.