How To Install marclint 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 libmarc-lint-perl

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install libmarc-lint-perl

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

What is marclint 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 marclint 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 marclint 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 marclint using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libmarc-lint-perl

Install marclint on CentOS 8 using yum

Because marclint 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 marclint package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libmarc-lint-perl

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

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update libmarc-lint-perl

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade libmarc-lint-perl

How to Upgrade marclint 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 libmarc-lint-perl

How To remove marclint from CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove libmarc-lint-perl

Extra info and code examples

MARC::Lint is a Perl module for checking the validity of MARC records. Most of the users will want to do something like is shown in the synopsis. Other users may choose instead to overload MARC::Lint's methods and provide their own special field-level checking. If you have certain requirements, such as making sure that all 952 tags have a certain call number in them, you can write a function that checks for that, and still get all the benefits of the MARC::Lint framework.

Conclusion

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

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