How To Install perl-HTTP-Negotiate on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-HTTP-Negotiate on CentOS 7. perl-HTTP-Negotiate is Choose a variant to serve

Introduction

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

What is perl-HTTP-Negotiate

This module provides a complete implementation of the HTTP content negotiation algorithm specified in draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-00.ps chapter 12. Content negotiation allows for the selection of a preferred content representation based upon attributes of the negotiable variants and the value of the various Accept* header fields in the request.

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

Install perl-HTTP-Negotiate 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-HTTP-Negotiate using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-HTTP-Negotiate

Install perl-HTTP-Negotiate 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-HTTP-Negotiate using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-HTTP-Negotiate

How To Uninstall perl-HTTP-Negotiate on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove perl-HTTP-Negotiate

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Summary

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