How To Install perl-asa on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-asa on Rocky Linux 8. perl-asa is Lets your class/object say it works like something else

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-asa on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `perl-asa`

Perl 5 doesn’t natively support Java-style interfaces, and it doesn’t support Perl 6 style roles either. You can get both of these things in half a dozen different ways via various CPAN modules, but they usually require that you buy into “their way” of implementing your code. This package overrides the isa() method, allowing your class to claim it’s a class it’s not (that is, isn’t in @ISA).

We can use yum or dnf to install perl-asa on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-asa.

Install perl-asa on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install perl-asa using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-asa

Install perl-asa on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install perl-asa using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-asa

How To Uninstall perl-asa on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove perl-asa

perl-asa Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/doc/perl-asa
/usr/share/doc/perl-asa/CONTRIBUTING
/usr/share/doc/perl-asa/Changes
/usr/share/doc/perl-asa/README
/usr/share/licenses/perl-asa
/usr/share/licenses/perl-asa/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man3/asa.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/asa.pm

References

perl-asa website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-asa on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.