How To Install perl-Sereal on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Sereal on CentOS 8. perl-Sereal is Fast, compact, powerful binary (de-)serialization

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Sereal on CentOS 8.

What is perl-Sereal

Sereal is an efficient, compact-output, binary and feature-rich serialization protocol. The Perl encoder is implemented as the Sereal Perl decoder correspondingly as Sereal thin wrapper around both Sereal both and loads both.

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

Install perl-Sereal on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install perl-Sereal using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-Sereal

Install perl-Sereal on CentOS 8 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-Sereal using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-Sereal

How To Uninstall perl-Sereal on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove perl-Sereal

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Sereal on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.