How To Install perl-Digest-MD5 on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Digest-MD5 on CentOS 8.
What is perl-Digest-MD5
The Digest Message Digest algorithm from within Perl programs. The algorithm takes as input a message of arbitrary length and produces as output a 128-bit “fingerprint” or “message digest” of the input.
We can use yum or dnf to install perl-Digest-MD5 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-Digest-MD5.
Install perl-Digest-MD5 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-Digest-MD5 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install perl-Digest-MD5
Install perl-Digest-MD5 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-Digest-MD5 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install perl-Digest-MD5
How To Uninstall perl-Digest-MD5 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the perl-Digest-MD5 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove perl-Digest-MD5
perl-Digest-MD5 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a/f62df473f20a32e4a2ddabb17a68eaafd9df5c
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Digest
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Digest/MD5.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Digest
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Digest/MD5
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Digest/MD5/MD5.so
/usr/share/doc/perl-Digest-MD5
/usr/share/doc/perl-Digest-MD5/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-Digest-MD5/README
/usr/share/man/man3/Digest::MD5.3pm.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Digest-MD5 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.