Information about the package, perl, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl package is designed for, Practical Extraction and Report Language.
Package Name:
perl
Summary:
Practical Extraction and Report Language
URL:
Description:
MIT and Public Domain and UCD 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. A large proportion of the CGI scripts on the web are written in Perl. You need the perl package installed on your system so that your system can handle Perl scripts. Install this package if you want to program in Perl or enable your system to handle Perl scripts.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
5.10.1
Release:
144.el6
Size:
34 M
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
(GPL+ or Artistic) and (GPLv2+ or Artistic) and Copyright Only and
Control the perl package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install perl
This command will install perl on the server.
yum remove perl
This command will un-install perl on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove perl
This command will un-install perl on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove perl when using the -y flag.
yum update perl
This command will update perl to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update perl
This command will update perl to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove perl when using the -y flag.
yum info perl
This command will show you core information about the perl package.
yum deplist perl
This command will show you the dependencies for perl. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update perl
This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.