How To Install perl-Compress-Bzip2 on CentOS 8

perl-Compress-Bzip2 is Interface to Bzip2 compression library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Compress-Bzip2 on CentOS 8.

What is perl-Compress-Bzip2

The Compress library. A relevant subset of the functionality provided by Bzip2 is available in Compress the preferred IO

We can use yum or dnf to install perl-Compress-Bzip2 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-Compress-Bzip2.

Install perl-Compress-Bzip2 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 perl-Compress-Bzip2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-Compress-Bzip2

Install perl-Compress-Bzip2 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 perl-Compress-Bzip2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-Compress-Bzip2

How To Uninstall perl-Compress-Bzip2 on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the perl-Compress-Bzip2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove perl-Compress-Bzip2

perl-Compress-Bzip2 Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/af
/usr/lib/.build-id/af/ee79bdffee9c961907100f8895032d76cc102d
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Compress
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Compress/Bzip2.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Compress
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Compress/Bzip2
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Compress/Bzip2/Bzip2.so
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Compress/Bzip2/autosplit.ix
/usr/share/doc/perl-Compress-Bzip2
/usr/share/doc/perl-Compress-Bzip2/ANNOUNCE
/usr/share/doc/perl-Compress-Bzip2/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-Compress-Bzip2/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/perl-Compress-Bzip2/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/perl-Compress-Bzip2
/usr/share/licenses/perl-Compress-Bzip2/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man3/Compress::Bzip2.3pm.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Compress-Bzip2 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.