How To Install perl-MCE on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-MCE on CentOS 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 CentOS 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 CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install perl-MCE using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install perl-MCE
Install perl-MCE on CentOS 8 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install perl-MCE using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install perl-MCE
How To Uninstall perl-MCE on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the perl-MCE package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove perl-MCE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-MCE on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.