How To Install perl-Perl-OSType on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Perl-OSType on Rocky Linux 8. perl-Perl-OSType is Map Perl operating system names to generic types

Introduction

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

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 systems are given the type ‘Windows’ rather than ‘Win32’).

We can use yum or dnf to install perl-Perl-OSType on Rocky Linux 8. 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 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-Perl-OSType using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-Perl-OSType

Install perl-Perl-OSType 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-Perl-OSType using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-Perl-OSType

How To Uninstall perl-Perl-OSType on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove perl-Perl-OSType

perl-Perl-OSType Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/doc/perl-Perl-OSType
/usr/share/doc/perl-Perl-OSType/CONTRIBUTING.mkdn
/usr/share/doc/perl-Perl-OSType/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-Perl-OSType/README
/usr/share/licenses/perl-Perl-OSType
/usr/share/licenses/perl-Perl-OSType/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man3/Perl::OSType.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Perl/OSType.pm

References

Summary

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