How To Install perl-macros on CentOS 7

Introduction

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

What is perl-macros

Macros for rpmbuild are needed during build of srpm in koji. This sub-package must be installed into buildroot, so it will be needed by perl. Perl is needed because of git.

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

Install perl-macros 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-macros using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-macros

Install perl-macros 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-macros using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-macros

How To Uninstall perl-macros on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove perl-macros

References

• perl-macros website

Summary

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