How To Install ghc-tagsoup on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-tagsoup in Fedora 36. ghc-tagsoup is Parsing and extracting information from (possibly malformed) HTML/XML documents

Introduction

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

What is `ghc-tagsoup`

TagSoup is a library for parsing HTML/XML. It supports the HTML 5 specification, and can be used to parse either well-formed XML, or unstructured and malformed HTML from the web. The library also provides useful functions to extract information from an HTML document, making it ideal for screen-scraping. Users should start from the “Text.HTML.TagSoup” module.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install ghc-tagsoup

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

sudo yum -y install ghc-tagsoup

How To Uninstall ghc-tagsoup on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove ghc-tagsoup

ghc-tagsoup Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0/7cda9745aed23c3ecf7c9b17c59ddd486c64b6
/usr/lib64/libHStagsoup-0.14.8-CyPOLnSkXX7KcLbxE9mIIV-ghc8.10.5.so
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-tagsoup
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-tagsoup/LICENSE

References

ghc-tagsoup website

Summary

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