How To Install perl-DBI on CentOS 8

perl-DBI is A database access API for perl

Introduction

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

What is `perl-DBI`

DBI is a database access Application Programming Interface (API) for the Perl Language. The DBI API Specification defines a set of functions, variables and conventions that provide a consistent database interface independent of the actual database being used.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install perl-DBI

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

sudo yum -y install perl-DBI

How To Uninstall perl-DBI on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove perl-DBI

perl-DBI Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/dbilogstrip
/usr/bin/dbiprof
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/86
/usr/lib/.build-id/86/bc35cc8ddd9a32a187f35b1195406932eb54ee
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBD
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBD/DBM.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBD/ExampleP.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBD/File
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBD/File.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBD/File/Developers.pod
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBD/File/HowTo.pod
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBD/File/Roadmap.pod
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBD/Gofer
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBD/Gofer.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBD/Gofer/Policy
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBD/Gofer/Policy/Base.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBD/Gofer/Policy/classic.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBD/Gofer/Policy/pedantic.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBD/Gofer/Policy/rush.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBD/Gofer/Transport
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBD/Gofer/Transport/Base.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBD/Gofer/Transport/null.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBD/Gofer/Transport/pipeone.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBD/Gofer/Transport/stream.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBD/Mem.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBD/NullP.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBD/Sponge.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/Changes.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/Const
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/Const/GetInfo
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/Const/GetInfo/ANSI.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/Const/GetInfo/ODBC.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/Const/GetInfoReturn.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/Const/GetInfoType.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/DBD
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/DBD.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/DBD/Metadata.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/DBD/SqlEngine
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/DBD/SqlEngine.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/DBD/SqlEngine/Developers.pod
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/DBD/SqlEngine/HowTo.pod
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/Gofer
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/Gofer/Execute.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/Gofer/Request.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/Gofer/Response.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/Gofer/Serializer
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/Gofer/Serializer/Base.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/Gofer/Serializer/DataDumper.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/Gofer/Serializer/Storable.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/Gofer/Transport
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/Gofer/Transport/Base.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/Gofer/Transport/pipeone.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/Gofer/Transport/stream.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/Profile.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/ProfileData.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/ProfileDumper
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/ProfileDumper.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/ProfileDumper/Apache.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/ProfileSubs.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/PurePerl.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/SQL
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/SQL/Nano.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/Util
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/Util/CacheMemory.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/DBI/Util/_accessor.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/DBI
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/DBI/DBI.so
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/DBI/DBIXS.h
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/DBI/Driver.xst
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/DBI/Driver_xst.h
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/DBI/dbd_xsh.h
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/DBI/dbi_sql.h
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/DBI/dbipport.h
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/DBI/dbivport.h
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/DBI/dbixs_rev.h
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/dbixs_rev.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-DBI
/usr/share/doc/perl-DBI/README.md
/usr/share/doc/perl-DBI/perl_dbi_nulls_test.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-DBI/profile.pl
/usr/share/man/man1/dbilogstrip.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dbiprof.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBD::DBM.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBD::File.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBD::File::Developers.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBD::File::HowTo.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBD::File::Roadmap.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBD::Gofer.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBD::Gofer::Policy::Base.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBD::Gofer::Policy::classic.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBD::Gofer::Policy::pedantic.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBD::Gofer::Policy::rush.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBD::Gofer::Transport::Base.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBD::Gofer::Transport::null.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBD::Gofer::Transport::pipeone.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBD::Gofer::Transport::stream.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBD::Mem.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBD::Sponge.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::Const::GetInfo::ANSI.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::Const::GetInfo::ODBC.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::Const::GetInfoReturn.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::Const::GetInfoType.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::DBD.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::DBD::Metadata.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::DBD::SqlEngine.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::DBD::SqlEngine::Developers.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::DBD::SqlEngine::HowTo.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::Gofer::Execute.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::Gofer::Request.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::Gofer::Response.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::Gofer::Serializer::Base.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::Gofer::Serializer::DataDumper.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::Gofer::Serializer::Storable.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::Gofer::Transport::Base.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::Gofer::Transport::pipeone.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::Gofer::Transport::stream.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::Profile.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::ProfileData.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::ProfileDumper.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::ProfileDumper::Apache.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::ProfileSubs.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::PurePerl.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::SQL::Nano.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/DBI::Util::CacheMemory.3pm.gz

References

perl-DBI website

Summary

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