How To Install perltidy on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install perltidy in Fedora 36. perltidy is Tool for indenting and re-formatting Perl scripts

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perltidy on Fedora 36.

What is perltidy

Perltidy is a Perl script that indents and re-formats Perl scripts to make them easier to read. If you write Perl scripts, or spend much time reading them, you will probably find it useful. The formatting can be controlled with command line parameters. The default parameter settings approximately follow the suggestions in the Perl Style Guide. Perltidy can also output HTML of both POD and source code. Besides re-formatting scripts, Perltidy can be a great help in tracking down errors with missing or extra braces, parentheses, and square brackets because it is very good at localizing errors.

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

Install perltidy 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 perltidy using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perltidy

Install perltidy 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 perltidy using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perltidy

How To Uninstall perltidy on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the perltidy package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove perltidy

perltidy Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/perltidy
/usr/share/doc/perltidy
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/BUGS.md
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/CHANGES.md
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/README.md
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/docs
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/docs/BugLog.html
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/docs/ChangeLog.html
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/docs/INSTALL.html
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/docs/Tidy.html
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/docs/index.html
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/docs/index.md
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/docs/perltidy.html
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/docs/stylekey.html
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/docs/tutorial.html
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/examples
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/examples/README
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/examples/bbtidy.pl
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/examples/break_long_quotes.pl
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/examples/delete_ending_blank_lines.pl
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/examples/ex_mp.pl
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/examples/filter_example.in
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/examples/filter_example.pl
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/examples/find_naughty.pl
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/examples/lextest
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/examples/perlcomment.pl
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/examples/perllinetype.pl
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/examples/perlmask.pl
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/examples/perltidy_hide.pl
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/examples/perltidy_okw.pl
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/examples/perltidyrc_dump.pl
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/examples/perlxmltok.pl
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/examples/testfa.t
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/examples/testff.t
/usr/share/licenses/perltidy
/usr/share/licenses/perltidy/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/perltidy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Perl::Tidy.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl/Tidy
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl/Tidy.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl/Tidy.pod
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl/Tidy/Debugger.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl/Tidy/DevNull.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl/Tidy/Diagnostics.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl/Tidy/FileWriter.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl/Tidy/Formatter.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl/Tidy/HtmlWriter.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl/Tidy/IOScalar.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl/Tidy/IOScalarArray.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl/Tidy/IndentationItem.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl/Tidy/LineBuffer.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl/Tidy/LineSink.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl/Tidy/LineSource.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl/Tidy/Logger.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl/Tidy/Tokenizer.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl/Tidy/VerticalAligner
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl/Tidy/VerticalAligner.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl/Tidy/VerticalAligner/Alignment.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl/Tidy/VerticalAligner/Line.pm

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Summary

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