How To Install perl-File-Edit-Portable on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-File-Edit-Portable on Rocky Linux 8.

What is perl-File-Edit-Portable

The default behavior of perl is to read and write files using the Operating System’s (OS) default record separator (line ending). If you open a file on an OS where the record separators are that of another OS, things can and do break.

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

Install perl-File-Edit-Portable 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-File-Edit-Portable using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-File-Edit-Portable

Install perl-File-Edit-Portable 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-File-Edit-Portable using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-File-Edit-Portable

How To Uninstall perl-File-Edit-Portable on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the perl-File-Edit-Portable package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove perl-File-Edit-Portable

perl-File-Edit-Portable Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/doc/perl-File-Edit-Portable
/usr/share/doc/perl-File-Edit-Portable/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-File-Edit-Portable/README
/usr/share/man/man3/File::Edit::Portable.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/File
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/File/Edit
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/File/Edit/Portable.pm

References

• perl-File-Edit-Portable website

Summary

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