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

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-IO-FDPass on Rocky Linux 8. perl-IO-FDPass is Pass a file descriptor over a socket

Introduction

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

What is perl-IO-FDPass

This small low-level module only has one purpose another process, using a (streaming) UNIX domain socket (on POSIX systems) or any (streaming) socket (on WIN32 systems). The ability to pass file descriptors on Windows is currently the unique selling point of this module. Have I mentioned that it is really small, too?

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

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

sudo dnf -y install perl-IO-FDPass

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

sudo yum -y install perl-IO-FDPass

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

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

sudo dnf remove perl-IO-FDPass

perl-IO-FDPass Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/11
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/af114c9041246fd0fc9804c7cb410f13f6719a
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/IO
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/IO/FDPass.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/IO
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/IO/FDPass
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/IO/FDPass/FDPass.so
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-FDPass
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-FDPass/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-IO-FDPass/README
/usr/share/licenses/perl-IO-FDPass
/usr/share/licenses/perl-IO-FDPass/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man3/IO::FDPass.3pm.gz

References

Summary

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