How To Install perl-Dist-CheckConflicts on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Dist-CheckConflicts on CentOS 7.
What is perl-Dist-CheckConflicts
One shortcoming of the CPAN clients that currently exist is that they have no way of specifying conflicting downstream dependencies of modules. This module attempts to work around this issue by allowing you to specify conflicting versions of modules separately, and deal with them after the module is done installing. For instance, say you have a module Foo, and some other module Bar uses Foo. If Foo were to change its API in a non-backwards-compatible way, this would cause Bar to break until it is updated to use the new API. Foo can’t just depend on the fixed version of Bar, because this will cause a circular dependency (because Bar is already depending on Foo), and this doesn’t express intent properly anyway - Foo doesn’t use Bar at all. The ideal solution would be for there to be a way to specify conflicting versions of modules in a way that would let CPAN clients update conflicting modules automatically after an existing module is upgraded, but until that happens, this module will allow users to do this manually.
We can use yum or dnf to install perl-Dist-CheckConflicts on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-Dist-CheckConflicts.
Install perl-Dist-CheckConflicts 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-Dist-CheckConflicts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install perl-Dist-CheckConflicts
Install perl-Dist-CheckConflicts 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-Dist-CheckConflicts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install perl-Dist-CheckConflicts
How To Uninstall perl-Dist-CheckConflicts on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the perl-Dist-CheckConflicts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove perl-Dist-CheckConflicts
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Dist-CheckConflicts on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
