How To Install perl-Socket on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Socket
on AlmaLinux 8.
What is perl-Socket
This module provides a variety of constants, structure manipulators and other functions related to socket-based networking. The values and functions provided are useful when used in conjunction with Perl core functions such as socket(), setsockopt() and bind(). It also provides several other support functions, mostly for dealing with conversions of network addresses between human-readable and native binary forms, and for hostname resolver operations.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install perl-Socket
on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-Socket.
Install perl-Socket on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install perl-Socket
using dnf
by running the following command:
Install perl-Socket on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install perl-Socket
using yum
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall perl-Socket on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the perl-Socket
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Socket
on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.