How To Install perl-Lchown on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Lchown on Rocky Linux 8. perl-Lchown is Use the lchown(2) system call from Perl

Introduction

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

What is `perl-Lchown`

Provides a perl interface to the lchown() system call. lchown() changes ownership of a file, but does not dereference symbolic links.

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

Install perl-Lchown 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-Lchown using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-Lchown

Install perl-Lchown 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-Lchown using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-Lchown

How To Uninstall perl-Lchown on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove perl-Lchown

perl-Lchown Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3/285d1b2e60da0bdba0f844bddb187410b23861
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Lchown.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Lchown
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Lchown/Lchown.so
/usr/share/doc/perl-Lchown
/usr/share/doc/perl-Lchown/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-Lchown/README
/usr/share/man/man3/Lchown.3pm.gz

References

perl-Lchown website

Summary

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