How To Install perl-MCE on AlmaLinux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-MCE in AlmaLinux 8. perl-MCE is Many-core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-MCE on AlmaLinux 8.

What is perl-MCE

Many-core Engine (MCE) for Perl helps enable a new level of performance by maximizing all available cores. MCE spawns a pool of workers and therefore does not fork a new process per each element of data. Instead, MCE follows a bank queuing model. Imagine the line being the data and bank-tellers the parallel workers. MCE enhances that model by adding the ability to chunk the next n elements from the input stream to the next available worker.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install perl-MCE

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

sudo yum -y install perl-MCE

How To Uninstall perl-MCE on AlmaLinux 8

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

sudo dnf remove perl-MCE

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-MCE on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.