How To Install cpanspec on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cpanspec on CentOS 8.
What is cpanspec
cpanspec generates spec files (and, optionally, source or even binary packages) for Perl modules from CPAN for Fedora. The quality of the spec file is our primary concern. It is assumed that maintainers will need to do some (hopefully small) amount of work to clean up the generated spec file to make the package build and to verify that all of the information contained in the spec file is correct.
We can use yum or dnf to install cpanspec on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cpanspec.
Install cpanspec 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 cpanspec using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cpanspec
Install cpanspec 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 cpanspec using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cpanspec
How To Uninstall cpanspec on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the cpanspec package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cpanspec
cpanspec Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/cpanget
/usr/bin/cpanspec
/usr/share/doc/cpanspec
/usr/share/doc/cpanspec/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/cpanspec/Changes
/usr/share/doc/cpanspec/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/cpanspec
/usr/share/licenses/cpanspec/Artistic
/usr/share/licenses/cpanspec/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/cpanspec.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cpanspec on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.