How To Install perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements on CentOS 8

perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements is Set of version requirements for a CPAN dist

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements on CentOS 8.

What is perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements

A CPAN those specified in the META.yml or META.json files in CPAN distributions. It can be built up by adding more and more constraints, and it will reduce them to the simplest representation. Logically impossible constraints will be identified immediately by thrown exceptions.

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

Install perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements 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-Meta-Requirements using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements

Install perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements 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-Meta-Requirements using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements

How To Uninstall perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements

perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/doc/perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements
/usr/share/doc/perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements/CONTRIBUTING.mkdn
/usr/share/doc/perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements/README
/usr/share/doc/perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements/perlcritic.rc
/usr/share/licenses/perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements
/usr/share/licenses/perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man3/CPAN::Meta::Requirements.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CPAN
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CPAN/Meta
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CPAN/Meta/Requirements.pm

References

Summary

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