perl516 - A recent stable release of Perl with a number of additional utilities, scripts, and database connectors for MySQL and PostgreSQL. This version provides a large number of new features and enhancements, including new debugging options, improved Unicode support, and better performance.

This collection is EOL since Oct 2016.

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Instructions

You can get started in three easy steps:

# 1. Install a package with repository for your system:
# On CentOS, install package centos-release-scl available in CentOS repository:
$ sudo yum install centos-release-scl

# On RHEL, enable RHSCL repository for you system:
$ sudo yum-config-manager --enable rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms

# 2. Install the collection:
$ sudo yum install perl516

# 3. Start using the software collection:
$ scl enable perl516 bash

At this point you should be able to use perl just as a normal application. Examples of commands run might be:

$ perl my-app.pl
$ sudo yum install perl516-perl-CPAN make
$ sudo cpan App::cpanminus
$ sudo cpanm -n Furl

In order to view the individual components included in this collection, including additional Perl modules, you can run:

$ sudo yum list perl516\*

Perl Software Collection as Docker Formatted Container

On CentOS 7 and RHEL 7 you can pull the image with the following command:

$ docker pull openshift3_beta/perl-516-rhel7

For more on the docker image follow the link to public source repository: https://github.com/sclorg/s2i-perl-container

Policy

Community Project: Maintained by upstream communities of developers. The software is cared for, but the developers make no commitments to update the repositories in a timely manner.

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Some packages from this collection require packages provided by these collections:

Yum Repositories Dec. 15, 2014, 9:02 a.m.

Operating system Package with repo Browse files
CentOS 6

yum install centos-release-scl-rh

x86_64
CentOS 7

yum install centos-release-scl-rh

x86_64
RHEL 6

yum-config-manager --enable rhel-server-rhscl-6-rpms

RHEL 7

yum-config-manager --enable rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms

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