How To Install perl-Scalar-String on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Scalar-String on CentOS 7. perl-Scalar-String is String aspects of scalars

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Scalar-String on CentOS 7.

What is perl-Scalar-String

This module is about the string part of plain Perl scalars. A scalar has a string value, which is notionally a sequence of Unicode codepoints, but may be internally encoded in either ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8. In places, and more so in older versions of Perl, the internal encoding shows through. To fully understand Perl strings it is necessary to understand these implementation details.

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

Install perl-Scalar-String 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-Scalar-String using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-Scalar-String

Install perl-Scalar-String 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-Scalar-String using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-Scalar-String

How To Uninstall perl-Scalar-String on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the perl-Scalar-String package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove perl-Scalar-String

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Summary

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