How To Install perl-Child on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Child on CentOS 7. perl-Child is Object oriented simple interface to fork()

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Child on CentOS 7.

What is perl-Child

Fork is too low level, and difficult to manage. Often people forget to exit at the end, reap their children, and check exit status. The problem is the low level functions provided to do these things. Throw in pipes for IPC and you just have a pile of things nobody wants to think about.

We can use yum or dnf to install perl-Child on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-Child.

Install perl-Child on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install perl-Child using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-Child

Install perl-Child on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install perl-Child using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-Child

How To Uninstall perl-Child on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove perl-Child

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Child on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.