How To Install ghc-basic-prelude on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-basic-prelude in Fedora 36. ghc-basic-prelude is Enhanced basic and core preludes

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-basic-prelude on Fedora 36.

What is `ghc-basic-prelude`

The premise of basic-prelude is that there are a lot of very commonly desired features missing from the standard Prelude, such as commonly used operators (<$> and >=>, for instance) and imports for common datatypes (e.g., ByteString and Vector). At the same time, there are lots of other components which are more debatable, such as providing polymorphic versions of common functions. So basic-prelude is intended to give a common foundation for a number of alternate preludes. The package provides two modules provides the common ground for other preludes to build on top of, while BasicPrelude exports CorePrelude together with commonly used list functions to provide a drop-in replacement for the standard Prelude. Users wishing to have an improved Prelude can use BasicPrelude. Developers wishing to create a new prelude should use CorePrelude.

We can use yum or dnf to install ghc-basic-prelude on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ghc-basic-prelude.

Install ghc-basic-prelude on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ghc-basic-prelude using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ghc-basic-prelude

Install ghc-basic-prelude on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ghc-basic-prelude using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ghc-basic-prelude

How To Uninstall ghc-basic-prelude on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the ghc-basic-prelude package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ghc-basic-prelude

ghc-basic-prelude Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/26926ec9997da3360ca3bbe8d4a452e801d274
/usr/lib64/libHSbasic-prelude-0.7.0-CaexTuq5vhg8JDVa1AkwwN-ghc8.10.5.so
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-basic-prelude
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-basic-prelude/LICENSE

References

ghc-basic-prelude website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-basic-prelude on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).