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perl-enum


Information about the package, perl-enum, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-enum package is designed for, C-style enumerated types and bitmask flags in Perl.


Package Name:

perl-enum

Summary:

C-style enumerated types and bitmask flags in Perl

Description:

This module is used to define a set of constants with ordered numeric values, similar to the enum type in the C programming language. You can also define bitmask constants, where the value assigned to each constant has exactly one bit set (e.g. 1, 2, 4, 8, etc).

Architecture:

noarch

Version:

1.11

Release:

1.el6

Size:

15 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPL+ or Artistic



Handy Yum Commands for perl-enum


Control the perl-enum package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install perl-enum

This command will install perl-enum on the server.

yum remove perl-enum

This command will un-install perl-enum on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-enum, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove perl-enum

This command will un-install perl-enum 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-enum when using the -y flag.

yum update perl-enum

This command will update perl-enum to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-enum, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update perl-enum

This command will update perl-enum 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-enum when using the -y flag.

yum info perl-enum

This command will show you core information about the perl-enum package.

yum deplist perl-enum

This command will show you the dependencies for perl-enum. 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-enum

This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-enum. 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.