How To Install perltidy on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install perltidy on CentOS 7.
What is perltidy
Perltidy is a Perl script which indents and reformats Perl scripts to make them easier to read. If you write Perl scripts, or spend much time reading them, you will probably find it useful. The formatting can be controlled with command line parameters. The default parameter settings approximately follow the suggestions in the Perl Style Guide. Perltidy can also output HTML of both POD and source code. Besides reformatting scripts, Perltidy can be a great help in tracking down errors with missing or extra braces, parentheses, and square brackets because it is very good at localizing errors.
We can use yum or dnf to install perltidy on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perltidy.
Install perltidy on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install perltidy using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install perltidy
Install perltidy 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 perltidy using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install perltidy
How To Uninstall perltidy on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the perltidy package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove perltidy
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install perltidy on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.