Information about the package, perl-Net-SSLeay, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-Net-SSLeay package is designed for, Perl extension for using OpenSSL.
Package Name:
perl-Net-SSLeay
Summary:
Perl extension for using OpenSSL
Description:
This module offers some high level convenience functions for accessing web pages on SSL servers (for symmetry, same API is offered for accessing http servers, too), a sslcat() function for writing your own clients, and finally access to the SSL api of SSLeay/OpenSSL package so you can write servers or clients for more complicated applications.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.35
Release:
10.el6_8.1
Size:
597 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
updates
Licence:
OpenSSL
Control the perl-Net-SSLeay package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install perl-Net-SSLeay
This command will install perl-Net-SSLeay on the server.
yum remove perl-Net-SSLeay
This command will un-install perl-Net-SSLeay on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-Net-SSLeay, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove perl-Net-SSLeay
This command will un-install perl-Net-SSLeay 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-Net-SSLeay when using the -y flag.
yum update perl-Net-SSLeay
This command will update perl-Net-SSLeay to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-Net-SSLeay, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update perl-Net-SSLeay
This command will update perl-Net-SSLeay 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-Net-SSLeay when using the -y flag.
yum info perl-Net-SSLeay
This command will show you core information about the perl-Net-SSLeay package.
yum deplist perl-Net-SSLeay
This command will show you the dependencies for perl-Net-SSLeay. 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-Net-SSLeay
This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-Net-SSLeay. 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.