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rh-perl526 - A release of Perl, a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming. The rh-perl526 Software Collection provides additional utilities, scripts, and database connectors for MySQL and PostgreSQL. It includes the DateTime Perl module and the mod_perl Apache httpd module, which is supported only with the httpd24 Software Collection. Additionally, it provides the cpanm utility for easy installation of CPAN modules.

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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-perl526

# 3. Start using the software collection:
$ scl enable rh-perl526 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-perl526-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-perl526\*

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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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