How To Install perl-Sereal on Rocky Linux 8

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

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Sereal on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 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 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-Sereal using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-Sereal

Install perl-Sereal 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-Sereal using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-Sereal

How To Uninstall perl-Sereal on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove perl-Sereal

perl-Sereal Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/doc/perl-Sereal
/usr/share/doc/perl-Sereal/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-Sereal/README
/usr/share/man/man3/Sereal.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Sereal.pm

References

Summary

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