How to Install and Uninstall perl.x86_64 Package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8)

Last updated: January 05,2025

1. Install "perl.x86_64" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install perl.x86_64 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8)


    
        
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                sudo dnf update
            
                    
    
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                sudo dnf install
            
                        
                perl.x86_64
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "perl.x86_64" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall perl.x86_64 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8):


    
        
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                sudo dnf remove
            
                        
                perl.x86_64
            
                    
    
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                sudo dnf autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the perl.x86_64 package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8)

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Available Packages
Name : perl
Epoch : 4
Version : 5.26.3
Release : 422.el8
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 73 k
Source : perl-5.26.3-422.el8.src.rpm
Repository : ubi-8-appstream-rpms
Summary : Practical Extraction and Report Language
URL : http://www.perl.org/
License : GPL+ or Artistic
Description : Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed, awk and shell
: scripting. Perl is good at handling processes and files, and is especially
: good at handling text. Perl's hallmarks are practicality and efficiency.
: While it is used to do a lot of different things, Perl's most common
: applications are system administration utilities and web programming.
:
: This is a metapackage with all the Perl bits and core modules that can be
: found in the upstream tarball from perl.org.
:
: If you need only a specific feature, you can install a specific package
: instead. E.g. to handle Perl scripts with /usr/bin/perl interpreter,
: install perl-interpreter package. See perl-interpreter description for more
: details on the Perl decomposition into packages.