How To Install ghc-hint on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-hint in Fedora 36. ghc-hint is Runtime Haskell interpreter

Introduction

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

What is ghc-hint

This library defines an Interpreter monad. It allows to load Haskell modules, browse them, type-check and evaluate strings with Haskell expressions and even coerce them into values. The library is thread-safe and type-safe (even the coercion of expressions to values). It is, essentially, a huge subset of the GHC API wrapped in a simpler API.

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

Install ghc-hint 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-hint using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ghc-hint

Install ghc-hint 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-hint using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ghc-hint

How To Uninstall ghc-hint on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove ghc-hint

ghc-hint Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b/a724f8908a947fb58428e4de894e9e36cb8f48
/usr/lib64/libHShint-0.9.0.4-7GR8UnOuwIbHNCqCSHKCK0-ghc8.10.5.so
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-hint
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-hint/LICENSE

References

Summary

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