How To Install perl-CPAN-DistnameInfo on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-CPAN-DistnameInfo on CentOS 8.
What is perl-CPAN-DistnameInfo
Many online services that are centered around CPAN attempt to associate multiple uploads by extracting a distribution name from the filename of the upload. For most distributions this is easy as they have used ExtUtils distribution, which results in a uniform name. But sadly not all uploads are created in this way. CPAN http from filenames and also report if the version is to be treated as a developer release.
We can use yum or dnf to install perl-CPAN-DistnameInfo on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-CPAN-DistnameInfo.
Install perl-CPAN-DistnameInfo 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-CPAN-DistnameInfo using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install perl-CPAN-DistnameInfo
Install perl-CPAN-DistnameInfo 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-CPAN-DistnameInfo using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install perl-CPAN-DistnameInfo
How To Uninstall perl-CPAN-DistnameInfo on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the perl-CPAN-DistnameInfo package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove perl-CPAN-DistnameInfo
perl-CPAN-DistnameInfo Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/doc/perl-CPAN-DistnameInfo
/usr/share/doc/perl-CPAN-DistnameInfo/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-CPAN-DistnameInfo/README
/usr/share/man/man3/CPAN::DistnameInfo.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CPAN
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CPAN/DistnameInfo.pm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-CPAN-DistnameInfo on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.