How To Install perl-Sys-Detect-Virtualization on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Sys-Detect-Virtualization on CentOS 7. perl-Sys-Detect-Virtualization is Library to detect if a UNIX system is running as a virtual machine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Sys-Detect-Virtualization on CentOS 7.

What is perl-Sys-Detect-Virtualization

This module attempts to detect whether or not a system is running as a guest under virtualization, using various heuristics.

We can use yum or dnf to install perl-Sys-Detect-Virtualization on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-Sys-Detect-Virtualization.

Install perl-Sys-Detect-Virtualization 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-Sys-Detect-Virtualization using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-Sys-Detect-Virtualization

Install perl-Sys-Detect-Virtualization 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-Sys-Detect-Virtualization using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-Sys-Detect-Virtualization

How To Uninstall perl-Sys-Detect-Virtualization on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the perl-Sys-Detect-Virtualization package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove perl-Sys-Detect-Virtualization

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Sys-Detect-Virtualization on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.