Information about the package, perl-parent, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-parent package is designed for, Establish an ISA relationship with base classes at compile time.
Package Name:
perl-parent
Summary:
Establish an ISA relationship with base classes at compile time
URL:
Description:
parent allows you to both load one or more modules, while setting up inheritance from those modules at the same time. Mostly similar in effect to: package Baz; BEGIN { require Foo; require Bar; push @ISA, qw(Foo Bar); }
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.221
Release:
144.el6
Size:
5.7 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
GPL+ or Artistic
Control the perl-parent package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install perl-parent
This command will install perl-parent on the server.
yum remove perl-parent
This command will un-install perl-parent on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-parent, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove perl-parent
This command will un-install perl-parent 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-parent when using the -y flag.
yum update perl-parent
This command will update perl-parent to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-parent, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update perl-parent
This command will update perl-parent 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-parent when using the -y flag.
yum info perl-parent
This command will show you core information about the perl-parent package.
yum deplist perl-parent
This command will show you the dependencies for perl-parent. 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-parent
This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-parent. 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.