How To Install freeradius-perl on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeradius-perl on Rocky Linux 8. freeradius-perl is Perl support for freeradius

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeradius-perl on Rocky Linux 8.

What is freeradius-perl

This plugin provides the Perl support for the FreeRADIUS server project.

We can use yum or dnf to install freeradius-perl on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freeradius-perl.

Install freeradius-perl 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 freeradius-perl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install freeradius-perl

Install freeradius-perl 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 freeradius-perl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freeradius-perl

How To Uninstall freeradius-perl on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove freeradius-perl

freeradius-perl Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/raddb/mods-available/perl
/etc/raddb/mods-config/perl
/etc/raddb/mods-config/perl/example.pl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d/86a4335f01e13bd4a8c85d08d9f22be4fba24e
/usr/lib64/freeradius/rlm_perl.so

References

Summary

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