How To Install cpanspec on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cpanspec on Rocky Linux 8.
What is cpanspec
cpanspec generates spec files (and, optionally, source or even binary packages) for Perl modules from CPAN for Fedora. The quality of the spec file is our primary concern. It is assumed that maintainers will need to do some (hopefully small) amount of work to clean up the generated spec file to make the package build and to verify that all of the information contained in the spec file is correct.
We can use yum or dnf to install cpanspec on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cpanspec.
Install cpanspec on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install cpanspec using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cpanspec
Install cpanspec on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install cpanspec using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cpanspec
How To Uninstall cpanspec on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the cpanspec package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cpanspec
cpanspec Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/cpanget
/usr/bin/cpanspec
/usr/share/doc/cpanspec
/usr/share/doc/cpanspec/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/cpanspec/Changes
/usr/share/doc/cpanspec/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/cpanspec
/usr/share/licenses/cpanspec/Artistic
/usr/share/licenses/cpanspec/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/cpanspec.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cpanspec on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.