How To Install perl-Test-Taint on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Test-Taint on CentOS 8.
What is perl-Test-Taint
Tainted data is data that comes from an unsafe source, such as the command line, or, in the case of web apps, any GET or POST transactions. Read the perlsec man page for details on why tainted data is bad, and how to untaint the data. When you’re writing unit tests for code that deals with tainted data, you’ll want to have a way to provide tainted data for your routines to handle, and easy ways to check and report on the taintedness of your data, in standard Test
We can use yum or dnf to install perl-Test-Taint on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-Test-Taint.
Install perl-Test-Taint on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install perl-Test-Taint using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install perl-Test-Taint
Install perl-Test-Taint on CentOS 8 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-Test-Taint using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install perl-Test-Taint
How To Uninstall perl-Test-Taint on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the perl-Test-Taint package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove perl-Test-Taint
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Test-Taint on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.