How To Install perl-Pod-Perldoc on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Pod-Perldoc on Rocky Linux 8. perl-Pod-Perldoc is Look up Perl documentation in Pod format

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Pod-Perldoc on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. 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 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-Pod-Perldoc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-Pod-Perldoc

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

sudo yum -y install perl-Pod-Perldoc

How To Uninstall perl-Pod-Perldoc on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove perl-Pod-Perldoc

perl-Pod-Perldoc Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/perldoc
/usr/share/doc/perl-Pod-Perldoc
/usr/share/doc/perl-Pod-Perldoc/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-Pod-Perldoc/README
/usr/share/man/man1/perldoc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Pod::Perldoc.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Pod::Perldoc::BaseTo.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Pod::Perldoc::GetOptsOO.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Pod::Perldoc::ToANSI.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Pod::Perldoc::ToChecker.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Pod::Perldoc::ToMan.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Pod::Perldoc::ToNroff.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Pod::Perldoc::ToPod.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Pod::Perldoc::ToRtf.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Pod::Perldoc::ToTerm.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Pod::Perldoc::ToText.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Pod::Perldoc::ToTk.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Pod::Perldoc::ToXml.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Pod::perldoc.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Pod
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Pod/Perldoc
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Pod/Perldoc.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Pod/Perldoc/BaseTo.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Pod/Perldoc/GetOptsOO.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Pod/Perldoc/ToANSI.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Pod/Perldoc/ToChecker.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Pod/Perldoc/ToMan.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Pod/Perldoc/ToNroff.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Pod/Perldoc/ToPod.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Pod/Perldoc/ToRtf.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Pod/Perldoc/ToTerm.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Pod/Perldoc/ToText.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Pod/Perldoc/ToTk.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Pod/Perldoc/ToXml.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/perldoc.pod

References

perl-Pod-Perldoc website

Summary

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