How To Install perl on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl on AlmaLinux 8.
What is perl
Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed, awk and shell scripting. Perl is good at handling processes and files, and is especially good at handling text. Perl’s hallmarks are practicality and efficiency. While it is used to do a lot of different things, Perl’s most common applications are system administration utilities and web programming. This is a metapackage with all the Perl bits and core modules that can be found in the upstream tarball from perl.org. If you need only a specific feature, you can install a specific package instead. E.g. to handle Perl scripts with /usr/bin/perl interpreter, install perl-interpreter package. See perl-interpreter description for more details on the Perl decomposition into packages.
We can use yum or dnf to install perl on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl.
Install perl on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install perl using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install perl
Install perl on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install perl using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install perl
How To Uninstall perl on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the perl package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.