How To Install perl-Text-Diff on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Text-Diff on CentOS 7.

What is perl-Text-Diff

Text utility. It is not anywhere near as feature complete as GNU diff, but it is better integrated with Perl and available on all platforms. It is often faster than shelling out to a system’s diff executable for small files, and generally slower on larger files.

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

Install perl-Text-Diff 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-Text-Diff using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-Text-Diff

Install perl-Text-Diff 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-Text-Diff using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-Text-Diff

How To Uninstall perl-Text-Diff on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove perl-Text-Diff

References

• perl-Text-Diff website

Summary

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