How To Install perl-Net-SSLeay on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Net-SSLeay on Rocky Linux 8. perl-Net-SSLeay is Perl extension for using OpenSSL

Introduction

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

What is perl-Net-SSLeay

This module offers some high level convenience functions for accessing web pages on SSL servers (for symmetry, same API is offered for accessing http servers, too), a sslcat() function for writing your own clients, and finally access to the SSL API of SSLeay/OpenSSL package so you can write servers or clients for more complicated applications.

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

Install perl-Net-SSLeay 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-Net-SSLeay using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-Net-SSLeay

Install perl-Net-SSLeay 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-Net-SSLeay using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-Net-SSLeay

How To Uninstall perl-Net-SSLeay on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove perl-Net-SSLeay

perl-Net-SSLeay Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d/d62aca43642b9219787ec80758bd01c6a0e90d
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Net
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Net/SSLeay
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Net/SSLeay.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Net/SSLeay.pod
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Net/SSLeay/Handle.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/SSLeay.so
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/autosplit.ix
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/debug_read.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/do_https.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/do_https2.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/do_https3.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/do_https4.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/do_httpx2.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/do_httpx3.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/do_httpx4.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/dump_peer_certificate.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/get_http.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/get_http3.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/get_http4.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/get_https.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/get_https3.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/get_https4.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/get_httpx.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/get_httpx3.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/get_httpx4.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/head_http.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/head_http3.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/head_http4.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/head_https.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/head_https3.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/head_https4.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/head_httpx.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/head_httpx3.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/head_httpx4.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/http_cat.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/https_cat.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/httpx_cat.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/initialize.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/make_form.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/make_headers.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/new_x_ctx.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/open_proxy_tcp_connection.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/open_tcp_connection.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/post_http.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/post_http3.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/post_http4.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/post_https.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/post_https3.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/post_https4.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/post_httpx.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/post_httpx3.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/post_httpx4.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/put_http.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/put_http3.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/put_http4.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/put_https.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/put_https3.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/put_https4.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/put_httpx.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/put_httpx3.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/put_httpx4.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/randomize.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/set_cert_and_key.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/set_proxy.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/set_server_cert_and_key.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/ssl_read_CRLF.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/ssl_read_all.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/ssl_read_until.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/ssl_write_CRLF.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/ssl_write_all.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/sslcat.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/tcp_read_CRLF.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/tcp_read_all.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/tcp_read_until.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/tcp_write_CRLF.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/tcp_write_all.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/tcpcat.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/tcpxcat.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/want_X509_lookup.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/want_nothing.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/want_read.al
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Net/SSLeay/want_write.al
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/Credits
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/QuickRef
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/README
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/examples
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/examples/bio.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/examples/bulk.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/examples/callback.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/examples/cb-testi.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/examples/cli-cert.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/examples/ephemeral.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/examples/get_authenticated_page.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/examples/get_page.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/examples/get_page_cert.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/examples/https-proxy-snif.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/examples/makecert.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/examples/minicli.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/examples/passwd-cb.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/examples/req.conf
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/examples/server_key.pem
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/examples/ssl-inetd-serv.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/examples/ssl_diff.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/examples/sslcat.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/examples/sslecho.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/examples/stdio_bulk.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/examples/tcpcat.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/examples/tcpecho.pl
/usr/share/doc/perl-Net-SSLeay/examples/x509_cert_details.pl
/usr/share/licenses/perl-Net-SSLeay
/usr/share/licenses/perl-Net-SSLeay/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man3/Net::SSLeay.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Net::SSLeay::Handle.3pm.gz

References

Summary

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