How To Install perl-Time-Fake on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Time-Fake on CentOS 7.

What is perl-Time-Fake

Use this module to achieve the effect of changing your system clock, but without actually changing your system clock. It overrides the Perl builtin subs time, localtime, and gmtime, causing them to return a “faked” time of your choice. From the script’s point of view, time still flows at the normal rate, but it is just offset as if it were executing in the past or present.

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

Install perl-Time-Fake 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-Time-Fake using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-Time-Fake

Install perl-Time-Fake 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-Time-Fake using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-Time-Fake

How To Uninstall perl-Time-Fake on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the perl-Time-Fake package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove perl-Time-Fake

References

• perl-Time-Fake website

Summary

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