Information about the package, perl-CGI, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-CGI package is designed for, Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses.
Package Name:
perl-CGI
Summary:
Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
URL:
Description:
CGI.pm is a stable, complete and mature solution for processing and preparing HTTP requests and responses. Major features including processing form submissions, file uploads, reading and writing cookies, query string generation and manipulation, and processing and preparing HTTP headers. Some HTML generation utilities are included as well.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.51
Release:
144.el6
Size:
434 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
GPL+ or Artistic
Control the perl-CGI package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install perl-CGI
This command will install perl-CGI on the server.
yum remove perl-CGI
This command will un-install perl-CGI on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-CGI, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove perl-CGI
This command will un-install perl-CGI 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-CGI when using the -y flag.
yum update perl-CGI
This command will update perl-CGI to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-CGI, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update perl-CGI
This command will update perl-CGI 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-CGI when using the -y flag.
yum info perl-CGI
This command will show you core information about the perl-CGI package.
yum deplist perl-CGI
This command will show you the dependencies for perl-CGI. 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-CGI
This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-CGI. 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.