How To Install perl-Perl-OSType on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Perl-OSType on CentOS 7.
What is perl-Perl-OSType
Modules that provide OS-specific behaviors often need to know if the current operating system matches a more generic type of operating systems. For example, ’linux’ is a type of ‘Unix’ operating system and so is ‘freebsd’. This module provides a mapping between an operating system name as given by $^O and a more generic type. The initial version is based on the OS type mappings provided in Module ExtUtils the type ‘Windows’ rather than ‘Win32’).
We can use yum or dnf to install perl-Perl-OSType on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-Perl-OSType.
Install perl-Perl-OSType on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install perl-Perl-OSType using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install perl-Perl-OSType
Install perl-Perl-OSType on CentOS 7 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-Perl-OSType using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install perl-Perl-OSType
How To Uninstall perl-Perl-OSType on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the perl-Perl-OSType package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove perl-Perl-OSType
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Perl-OSType on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.