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rh-perl520 - A release of Perl, a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming. The rh-perl520 Software Collection provides additional utilities, scripts, and database connectors for MySQL and PostgreSQL. Also, it includes the DateTime Perl module and the mod_perl Appache httpd module, which is supported only with the httpd24 Software Collection.

This collection is EOL since April 2018.

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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 rh-perl520

# 3. Start using the software collection:
$ scl enable rh-perl520 bash

At this point you should be able to use perl just as a normal application. Some examples of new available commands follow:

$ perl my-app.pl
$ sudo yum install rh-perl520-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 rh-perl520\*

Perl Software Collection as Docker Formatted Container

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

$ docker pull rhscl/perl-520-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.

Related software collections

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

• MariaDB 5.5 by Software Collections
• MySQL 5.5 by Software Collections
• Apache HTTP Server 2.4 by Software Collections

Yum Repositories June 10, 2015, 12:05 p.m.

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