How To Install perl-Devel-PPPort on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Devel-PPPort on CentOS 8.
What is perl-Devel-PPPort
Perl’s API has changed over time, gaining new features, new functions, increasing its flexibility, and reducing the impact on the C name space environment (reduced pollution). The header file written by this module, typically ppport.h, attempts to bring some of the newer Perl API features to older versions of Perl, so that you can worry less about keeping track of old releases, but users can still reap the benefit.
We can use yum or dnf to install perl-Devel-PPPort on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-Devel-PPPort.
Install perl-Devel-PPPort 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-Devel-PPPort using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install perl-Devel-PPPort
Install perl-Devel-PPPort 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-Devel-PPPort using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install perl-Devel-PPPort
How To Uninstall perl-Devel-PPPort on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the perl-Devel-PPPort package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove perl-Devel-PPPort
perl-Devel-PPPort Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e/35c534005bd9dd58681777bfbab106f97c3530
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Devel
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Devel/PPPort.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Devel
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Devel/PPPort
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Devel/PPPort/PPPort.so
/usr/share/doc/perl-Devel-PPPort
/usr/share/doc/perl-Devel-PPPort/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-Devel-PPPort/HACKERS
/usr/share/doc/perl-Devel-PPPort/README
/usr/share/doc/perl-Devel-PPPort/TODO
/usr/share/doc/perl-Devel-PPPort/soak
/usr/share/man/man3/Devel::PPPort.3pm.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Devel-PPPort on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.