How To Install scala on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install scala on Fedora 34.
What is scala
Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages. It is also fully interoperable with Java. This package contains the Scala compiler and bytecode parser.
We can use yum or dnf to install scala on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install scala.
Install scala on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install scala using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install scala
Install scala on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install scala using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install scala
How To Uninstall scala on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the scala package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove scala
scala Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/fsc
/usr/bin/scala
/usr/bin/scalac
/usr/bin/scaladoc
/usr/bin/scalap
/usr/share/java/scala
/usr/share/java/scala/scala-compiler.jar
/usr/share/java/scala/scalap.jar
/usr/share/man/man1/fsc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/scala.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/scalac.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/scaladoc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/scalap.1.gz
/usr/share/maven-metadata/scala.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/scala
/usr/share/maven-poms/scala/scala-compiler.pom
/usr/share/maven-poms/scala/scalap.pom
/usr/share/mime-info/scala.keys
/usr/share/mime-info/scala.mime
/usr/share/mime/packages/scala-mime-info.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install scala on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
