How To Install perl-Pod-Perldoc on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Pod-Perldoc on CentOS 7. perl-Pod-Perldoc is Look up Perl documentation in Pod format

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Pod-Perldoc on CentOS 7.

What is perl-Pod-Perldoc

perldoc looks up a piece of documentation in .pod format that is embedded in the perl installation tree or in a perl script, and displays it via “groff -man | $PAGER”. This is primarily used for the documentation for the perl library modules.

We can use yum or dnf to install perl-Pod-Perldoc on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-Pod-Perldoc.

Install perl-Pod-Perldoc 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-Pod-Perldoc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-Pod-Perldoc

Install perl-Pod-Perldoc 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-Pod-Perldoc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-Pod-Perldoc

How To Uninstall perl-Pod-Perldoc on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the perl-Pod-Perldoc package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove perl-Pod-Perldoc

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Pod-Perldoc on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.