How To Install cpan2doap on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install librdf-doap-lite-perl

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install librdf-doap-lite-perl

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is cpan2doap and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install cpan2doap on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install cpan2doap on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install cpan2doap using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install librdf-doap-lite-perl

Install cpan2doap on CentOS 8 using yum

Because cpan2doap is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install cpan2doap package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install librdf-doap-lite-perl

How to upgrade (update) a single package cpan2doap using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like cpan2doap in this example you should use the following command:

yum update librdf-doap-lite-perl

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade librdf-doap-lite-perl

How to Upgrade cpan2doap on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update librdf-doap-lite-perl

How To remove cpan2doap from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the cpan2doap package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove librdf-doap-lite-perl

Extra info and code examples

RDF::DOAP::Lite is a small companion module to RDF::DOAP, enabling you to output DOAP data easily from standard CPAN distribution files. DOAP (Description of a Project) is an RDF Schema and XML vocabulary to describe software projects, in particular free and open source software.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install cpan2doap using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the cpan2doap from CentOS 8.

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