How To Install perl-Sys-Syscall on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Sys-Syscall on CentOS 7. perl-Sys-Syscall is Access system calls that Perl doesn’t normally provide access to

Introduction

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

What is perl-Sys-Syscall

Use epoll, sendfile, from Perl. Mostly Linux-only support now, but more syscalls/OSes planned for future.

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

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

sudo yum -y install perl-Sys-Syscall

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

sudo dnf -y install perl-Sys-Syscall

How To Uninstall perl-Sys-Syscall on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove perl-Sys-Syscall

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Summary

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