How To Install perl-IO-Compress on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-IO-Compress on Rocky Linux 8. perl-IO-Compress is Read and write compressed data

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-IO-Compress on Rocky Linux 8.

What is perl-IO-Compress

This distribution provides a Perl interface to allow reading and writing of compressed data created with the zlib and bzip2 libraries. IO-Compress supports reading and writing of bzip2, RFC 1950, RFC 1951, RFC 1952 (i.e. gzip) and zip files/buffers. The following modules used to be distributed separately, but are now included with the IO-Compress distribution * Compress-Zlib * IO-Compress-Zlib * IO-Compress-Bzip2 * IO-Compress-Base

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

Install perl-IO-Compress 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-IO-Compress using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-IO-Compress

Install perl-IO-Compress 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-IO-Compress using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-IO-Compress

How To Uninstall perl-IO-Compress on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove perl-IO-Compress

perl-IO-Compress Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/zipdetails
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Compress
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Compress/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Compress/README
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Compress/compress-zlib
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Compress/compress-zlib/filtdef
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Compress/compress-zlib/filtinf
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Compress/compress-zlib/gzcat
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Compress/compress-zlib/gzgrep
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Compress/compress-zlib/gzstream
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Compress/io
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Compress/io/anycat
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Compress/io/bzip2
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Compress/io/bzip2/bzcat
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Compress/io/bzip2/bzgrep
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Compress/io/bzip2/bzstream
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Compress/io/gzip
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Compress/io/gzip/gzappend
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Compress/io/gzip/gzcat
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Compress/io/gzip/gzgrep
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-Compress/io/gzip/gzstream
/usr/share/man/man1/zipdetails.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Compress::Zlib.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/File::GlobMapper.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/IO::Compress::Base.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/IO::Compress::Bzip2.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/IO::Compress::Deflate.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/IO::Compress::FAQ.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/IO::Compress::Gzip.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/IO::Compress::RawDeflate.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/IO::Compress::Zip.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/IO::Uncompress::AnyInflate.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/IO::Uncompress::AnyUncompress.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/IO::Uncompress::Base.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/IO::Uncompress::Gunzip.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/IO::Uncompress::Inflate.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/IO::Uncompress::RawInflate.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/IO::Uncompress::Unzip.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/Compress
/usr/share/perl5/Compress/Zlib.pm
/usr/share/perl5/File
/usr/share/perl5/File/GlobMapper.pm
/usr/share/perl5/IO
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Compress
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Compress/Adapter
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Compress/Adapter/Bzip2.pm
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Compress/Adapter/Deflate.pm
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Compress/Adapter/Identity.pm
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Compress/Base
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Compress/Base.pm
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Compress/Base/Common.pm
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Compress/Bzip2.pm
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Compress/Deflate.pm
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Compress/FAQ.pod
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Compress/Gzip
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Compress/Gzip.pm
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Compress/Gzip/Constants.pm
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Compress/RawDeflate.pm
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Compress/Zip
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Compress/Zip.pm
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Compress/Zip/Constants.pm
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Compress/Zlib
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Compress/Zlib/Constants.pm
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Compress/Zlib/Extra.pm
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Uncompress
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Uncompress/Adapter
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Uncompress/Adapter/Bunzip2.pm
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Uncompress/Adapter/Identity.pm
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Uncompress/Adapter/Inflate.pm
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Uncompress/AnyInflate.pm
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Uncompress/AnyUncompress.pm
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Uncompress/Base.pm
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Uncompress/Bunzip2.pm
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Uncompress/Gunzip.pm
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Uncompress/Inflate.pm
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Uncompress/RawInflate.pm
/usr/share/perl5/IO/Uncompress/Unzip.pm

References

Summary

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