How To Install perl-Socket6 on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Socket6 on Rocky Linux 8. perl-Socket6 is IPv6 related part of the C socket.h defines and structure manipulators

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Socket6 on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `perl-Socket6`

This module supports getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() to intend to enable protocol independent programming. If your environment supports IPv6, IPv6 related defines such as AF_INET6 are included.

We can use yum or dnf to install perl-Socket6 on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-Socket6.

Install perl-Socket6 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-Socket6 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-Socket6

Install perl-Socket6 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-Socket6 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-Socket6

How To Uninstall perl-Socket6 on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the perl-Socket6 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove perl-Socket6

perl-Socket6 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/07
/usr/lib/.build-id/07/fc268a4cf0cb45bc6b5f0ef0f8036d2f6ad4a4
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Socket6.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Socket6
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Socket6/Socket6.so
/usr/share/doc/perl-Socket6
/usr/share/doc/perl-Socket6/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/perl-Socket6/README
/usr/share/doc/perl-Socket6/gailookup.pl
/usr/share/man/man3/Socket6.3pm.gz

References

perl-Socket6 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Socket6 on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.