How To Install libobject-forkaware-perl on Debian 10

Learn how to install libobject-forkaware-perl on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libobject-forkaware-perl is module to make an object aware of process forks and threads

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libobject-forkaware-perl on Debian 10.

What is libobject-forkaware-perl

libobject-forkaware-perl is:

Object::ForkAware invisibly wraps your object and makes it fork-aware, automatically checking $$ on every access and recreating the object if the process id changes. (The object is also thread-aware; if the thread id changes, the object is recreated in the same manner.)

The object can be safely used with type checks and various type constraint mechanisms, as isa() and can() respond as if they were being called against the contained object itself.

Rationale: If you’ve ever had an object representing a network connection to some server, or something else containing a socket, a filehandle, etc, and used it in a program that forks, and then forgot to close and reopen your socket/handle etc. in the new process, you’ll know what chaos can ensue. Depending on the type of connection, you can have multiple processes trying to write to the same resource at once, or simultaneous reads getting each other’s data, dogs and cats living together… It’s horrible, and it’s an easy problem to run into.

There are three methods to install libobject-forkaware-perl on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libobject-forkaware-perl Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libobject-forkaware-perl using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libobject-forkaware-perl

Install libobject-forkaware-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libobject-forkaware-perl using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libobject-forkaware-perl

Install libobject-forkaware-perl Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libobject-forkaware-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libobject-forkaware-perl

How To Uninstall libobject-forkaware-perl on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove libobject-forkaware-perl

Uninstall libobject-forkaware-perl And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libobject-forkaware-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libobject-forkaware-perl

Remove libobject-forkaware-perl Configurations and Data

To remove libobject-forkaware-perl configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libobject-forkaware-perl

Remove libobject-forkaware-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libobject-forkaware-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libobject-forkaware-perl

Dependencies

libobject-forkaware-perl have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libobject-forkaware-perl package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.