How To Install perl-IPC-System-Simple on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-IPC-System-Simple on AlmaLinux 8.
What is perl-IPC-System-Simple
Calling Perl’s in-built ‘system()’ function is easy; determining if it was successful is hard. Let’s face it, ‘$?’ isn’t the nicest variable in the world to play with, and even if you do check it, producing a well-formatted error string takes a lot of work. ‘IPC takes the hard work out of calling external commands. In fact, if you want to be really lazy, you can just write use IPC and all of your “system” commands will either succeed (run to completion and return a zero exit value), or die with rich diagnostic messages.
We can use yum or dnf to install perl-IPC-System-Simple on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-IPC-System-Simple.
Install perl-IPC-System-Simple on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install perl-IPC-System-Simple using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install perl-IPC-System-Simple
Install perl-IPC-System-Simple on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install perl-IPC-System-Simple using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install perl-IPC-System-Simple
How To Uninstall perl-IPC-System-Simple on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the perl-IPC-System-Simple package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove perl-IPC-System-Simple
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-IPC-System-Simple on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
