How To Install perl-Digest on CentOS 7

Introduction

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

What is perl-Digest

The Digest or “hashes”, of some data, called a message. The digest is (usually) some small/fixed size string. The actual size of the digest depend of the algorithm used. The message is simply a sequence of arbitrary bytes or bits.

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

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

sudo yum -y install perl-Digest

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

sudo dnf -y install perl-Digest

How To Uninstall perl-Digest on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove perl-Digest

References

• perl-Digest website

Summary

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