How To Install perl-Text-Fuzzy on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Text-Fuzzy on CentOS 7. perl-Text-Fuzzy is Partial string matching using edit distances

Introduction

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

What is perl-Text-Fuzzy

This module calculates edit distances between words, and searches arrays and files to find the nearest entry by edit distance. It handles both byte strings and character strings (strings containing Unicode), treating each Unicode character as a single entity.

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

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

sudo yum -y install perl-Text-Fuzzy

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

sudo dnf -y install perl-Text-Fuzzy

How To Uninstall perl-Text-Fuzzy on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove perl-Text-Fuzzy

References

Summary

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