How To Install perl5.22.1 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 perl-base

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install perl-base

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

What is perl5.22.1 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 perl5.22.1 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 perl5.22.1 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 perl5.22.1 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-base

Install perl5.22.1 on CentOS 8 using yum

Because perl5.22.1 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 perl5.22.1 package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-base

How to upgrade (update) a single package perl5.22.1 using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like perl5.22.1 in this example you should use the following command:

yum update perl-base

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade perl-base

How to Upgrade perl5.22.1 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 perl-base

How To remove perl5.22.1 from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the perl5.22.1 package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove perl-base

Extra info and code examples

Perl is a scripting language used in many system scripts and utilities. This package provides a Perl interpreter and the small subset of the standard run-time library required to perform basic tasks. For a full Perl installation, install "perl" (and its dependencies, "perl-modules-5.28" and "perl-doc").

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install perl5.22.1 using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the perl5.22.1 from CentOS 8.

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