How To Install perl-Devel-Cycle on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Devel-Cycle on Rocky Linux 8. perl-Devel-Cycle is Find memory cycles in objects

Introduction

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

What is perl-Devel-Cycle

This is a simple developer’s tool for finding circular references in objects and other types of references. Because of Perl’s reference-count based memory management, circular references will cause memory leaks.

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

Install perl-Devel-Cycle 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-Devel-Cycle using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-Devel-Cycle

Install perl-Devel-Cycle 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-Devel-Cycle using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-Devel-Cycle

How To Uninstall perl-Devel-Cycle on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove perl-Devel-Cycle

perl-Devel-Cycle Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/doc/perl-Devel-Cycle
/usr/share/doc/perl-Devel-Cycle/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-Devel-Cycle/README
/usr/share/man/man3/Devel::Cycle.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Devel
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Devel/Cycle.pm

References

Summary

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