How To Install perl-CGI on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-CGI
on AlmaLinux 8.
What is perl-CGI
CGI.pm is a stable, complete and mature solution for processing and preparing HTTP requests and responses. Major features including processing form submissions, file uploads, reading and writing cookies, query string generation and manipulation, and processing and preparing HTTP headers. Some HTML generation utilities are included as well. CGI.pm performs very well in in a vanilla CGI.pm environment and also comes with built-in support for mod_perl and mod_perl2 as well as FastCGI.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install perl-CGI
on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-CGI.
Install perl-CGI on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install perl-CGI
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install perl-CGI
Install perl-CGI on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install perl-CGI
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install perl-CGI
How To Uninstall perl-CGI on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the perl-CGI
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove perl-CGI
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-CGI
on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.