How To Install cpanspec on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install cpanspec on Rocky Linux 8. cpanspec is RPM spec file generation utility

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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cpanspec on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.