How To Install perl-Best on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Best in Fedora 36. perl-Best is Fallbackable module loader

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Best on Fedora 36.

What is perl-Best

Often there are several possible providers of some functionality your program needs, but you don’t know which is available at the run site. For example, one of the modules may be implemented with XS, or not in the core Perl distribution and thus not necessarily installed. “Best” attempts to load modules from a list, stopping at the first successful load and failing only if no alternative was found.

We can use yum or dnf to install perl-Best on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-Best.

Install perl-Best on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install perl-Best using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-Best

Install perl-Best on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install perl-Best using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-Best

How To Uninstall perl-Best on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove perl-Best

perl-Best Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/doc/perl-Best
/usr/share/doc/perl-Best/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-Best/README
/usr/share/doc/perl-Best/example
/usr/share/doc/perl-Best/example/debug_dump.pl
/usr/share/licenses/perl-Best
/usr/share/licenses/perl-Best/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man3/Best.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Best.pm

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Best on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).