How To Install perl-Child on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Child on Rocky Linux 8. perl-Child is Object oriented simple interface to fork()

Introduction

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

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-Child.

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

sudo dnf -y install perl-Child

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

sudo yum -y install perl-Child

How To Uninstall perl-Child on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove perl-Child

perl-Child Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/doc/perl-Child
/usr/share/doc/perl-Child/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-Child/README
/usr/share/licenses/perl-Child
/usr/share/licenses/perl-Child/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man3/Child.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Child::IPC::Pipe.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Child::Link.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Child::Link::IPC.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Child::Link::IPC::Pipe.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Child::Link::IPC::Pipe::Parent.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Child::Link::IPC::Pipe::Proc.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Child::Link::Parent.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Child::Link::Proc.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Child::Util.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Child
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Child.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Child/IPC
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Child/IPC/Pipe.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Child/Link
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Child/Link.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Child/Link/IPC
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Child/Link/IPC.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Child/Link/IPC/Pipe
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Child/Link/IPC/Pipe.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Child/Link/IPC/Pipe/Parent.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Child/Link/IPC/Pipe/Proc.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Child/Link/Parent.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Child/Link/Proc.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Child/Util.pm

References

Summary

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