How To Install genders-perl on CentOS 8

genders-perl is Perl libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install genders-perl on CentOS 8.

What is genders-perl

Genders API bindings for perl.

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

Install genders-perl 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 genders-perl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install genders-perl

Install genders-perl 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 genders-perl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install genders-perl

How To Uninstall genders-perl on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove genders-perl

genders-perl Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3/8063f62140aad1faa9a4ec7216eb6a7d9d7c07
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Genders.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Libgenders.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Libgenders
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Libgenders/Libgenders.so
/usr/share/doc/genders-perl
/usr/share/doc/genders-perl/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/genders-perl/DISCLAIMER
/usr/share/doc/genders-perl/DISCLAIMER.UC
/usr/share/man/man3/Genders.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Libgenders.3pm.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install genders-perl on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.