How To Install perl-Error on CentOS 8

perl-Error is Error/exception handling in an OO-ish way

Introduction

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

What is perl-Error

The Error package provides two interfaces. Firstly Error provides a procedural interface to exception handling. Secondly Error is a base class for errors/exceptions that can either be thrown, for subsequent catch, or can simply be recorded.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install perl-Error

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

sudo yum -y install perl-Error

How To Uninstall perl-Error on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove perl-Error

perl-Error Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/doc/perl-Error
/usr/share/doc/perl-Error/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/perl-Error/README
/usr/share/doc/perl-Error/examples
/usr/share/doc/perl-Error/examples/example.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Error/examples/next-in-loop
/usr/share/doc/perl-Error/examples/next-in-loop/Error.pm-eval.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Error/examples/next-in-loop/Error.pm-next-label.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Error/examples/next-in-loop/Error.pm-next-out-of-catch.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Error/examples/next-in-loop/Error.pm-next.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Error/examples/next-in-loop/README
/usr/share/doc/perl-Error/examples/warndie.pl
/usr/share/licenses/perl-Error
/usr/share/licenses/perl-Error/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man3/Error.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Error::Simple.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Error
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Error.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Error/Simple.pm

References

Summary

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