How To Install perl-Devel-PPPort on CentOS 8

perl-Devel-PPPort is Perl Pollution Portability header generator

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.