How To Install perl-String-Similarity on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-String-Similarity on CentOS 7.
What is perl-String-Similarity
The similarity function calculates the similarity index of its two arguments. A value of 0 means that the strings are entirely different. A value of 1 means that the strings are identical. Everything else lies between 0 and 1 and describes the amount of similarity between the strings.
We can use yum or dnf to install perl-String-Similarity on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-String-Similarity.
Install perl-String-Similarity 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-String-Similarity using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install perl-String-Similarity
Install perl-String-Similarity 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-String-Similarity using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install perl-String-Similarity
How To Uninstall perl-String-Similarity on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the perl-String-Similarity package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove perl-String-Similarity
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-String-Similarity on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
