How To Install perl-CPAN-Releases-Latest on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-CPAN-Releases-Latest in Fedora 36. perl-CPAN-Releases-Latest is Find latest release of all distributions on CPAN

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-CPAN-Releases-Latest on Fedora 36.

What is `perl-CPAN-Releases-Latest`

This Perl module constructs a list of all distributions on CPAN, by default using the MetaCPAN API. The generated index is cached locally. It will let you iterate over the index, either release by release, or distribution by distribution.

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

Install perl-CPAN-Releases-Latest 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-CPAN-Releases-Latest using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-CPAN-Releases-Latest

Install perl-CPAN-Releases-Latest 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-CPAN-Releases-Latest using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-CPAN-Releases-Latest

How To Uninstall perl-CPAN-Releases-Latest on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the perl-CPAN-Releases-Latest package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove perl-CPAN-Releases-Latest

perl-CPAN-Releases-Latest Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/doc/perl-CPAN-Releases-Latest
/usr/share/doc/perl-CPAN-Releases-Latest/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-CPAN-Releases-Latest/README
/usr/share/licenses/perl-CPAN-Releases-Latest
/usr/share/licenses/perl-CPAN-Releases-Latest/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man3/CPAN::Releases::Latest.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/CPAN::Releases::Latest::Source::MetaCPAN.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CPAN
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CPAN/Releases
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CPAN/Releases/Latest
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CPAN/Releases/Latest.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CPAN/Releases/Latest/Distribution.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CPAN/Releases/Latest/DistributionIterator.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CPAN/Releases/Latest/Release.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CPAN/Releases/Latest/ReleaseIterator.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CPAN/Releases/Latest/Source
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/CPAN/Releases/Latest/Source/MetaCPAN.pm

References

perl-CPAN-Releases-Latest website

Summary

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