How To Install rakudo on CentOS 8
rakudo is Perl 6 compiler implementation that runs on MoarVM
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rakudo on CentOS 8.
What is rakudo
Rakudo Perl 6, or just Rakudo, is an implementation of the Perl 6 language specification. More information about Perl 6 is available from <http MoarVM virtual machine.
We can use yum or dnf to install rakudo on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rakudo.
Install rakudo 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 rakudo using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rakudo
Install rakudo 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 rakudo using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rakudo
How To Uninstall rakudo on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the rakudo package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rakudo
rakudo Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/perl6
/usr/bin/perl6-debug
/usr/bin/perl6-debug-m
/usr/bin/perl6-gdb-m
/usr/bin/perl6-lldb-m
/usr/bin/perl6-m
/usr/bin/perl6-valgrind-m
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a
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/usr/lib/.build-id/67
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/usr/lib/.build-id/cb
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/usr/lib/.build-id/d6
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6/be5ef209369a78fd5d7635ec7de50a6e10e5a0
/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.perl6
/usr/lib64/perl6
/usr/lib64/perl6/bin
/usr/lib64/perl6/bin/mod_inst.pl
/usr/lib64/perl6/core
/usr/lib64/perl6/core/bin
/usr/lib64/perl6/core/dist
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/usr/lib64/perl6/core/repo.lock
/usr/lib64/perl6/core/resources
/usr/lib64/perl6/core/short
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References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rakudo on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.