How To Install perl-PerlIO-Layers on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-PerlIO-Layers on Rocky Linux 8. perl-PerlIO-Layers is Querying your file handle capabilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-PerlIO-Layers on Rocky Linux 8.

What is perl-PerlIO-Layers

Perl file handles are implemented as a stack of layers, with the bottom-most usually doing the actual IO and the higher ones doing buffering, encoding/decoding or transformations. PerlIO file handle properties concerning these layers.

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

Install perl-PerlIO-Layers 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-PerlIO-Layers using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-PerlIO-Layers

Install perl-PerlIO-Layers 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-PerlIO-Layers using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-PerlIO-Layers

How To Uninstall perl-PerlIO-Layers on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove perl-PerlIO-Layers

perl-PerlIO-Layers Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2/4a4a730b9059922a265aab4a4d81f43f0519d6
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/PerlIO
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/PerlIO/Layers.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/PerlIO
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/PerlIO/Layers
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/PerlIO/Layers/Layers.so
/usr/share/doc/perl-PerlIO-Layers
/usr/share/doc/perl-PerlIO-Layers/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-PerlIO-Layers/README
/usr/share/licenses/perl-PerlIO-Layers
/usr/share/licenses/perl-PerlIO-Layers/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man3/PerlIO::Layers.3pm.gz

References

Summary

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