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

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Pod-Snippets on Rocky Linux 8. perl-Pod-Snippets is Extract and reformat snippets of POD

Introduction

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

What is perl-Pod-Snippets

This class is a very simple extension of Pod snippets from Perl code, and pretty-prints it so as to make it usable from other Perl code. As demonstrated above, Pod to test-driven-development nutcases who want to put every single line of Perl code under test, including code that is in the POD (typically a SYNOPSIS section). There are other uses, such as storing a piece of information that is both human- and machine-readable (e.g. an XML schema) simultaneously as documentation and code.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install perl-Pod-Snippets

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

sudo yum -y install perl-Pod-Snippets

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

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

sudo dnf remove perl-Pod-Snippets

perl-Pod-Snippets Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/doc/perl-Pod-Snippets
/usr/share/doc/perl-Pod-Snippets/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-Pod-Snippets/README
/usr/share/doc/perl-Pod-Snippets/eg
/usr/share/doc/perl-Pod-Snippets/eg/ClassWithTestsAtTheEnd.pm
/usr/share/man/man3/Pod::Snippets.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Pod
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Pod/Snippets.pm

References

Summary

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