How To Install ghc-ghc on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-ghc on Rocky Linux 8.

What is ghc-ghc

This package provides the Haskell ghc library.

We can use yum or dnf to install ghc-ghc on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ghc-ghc.

Install ghc-ghc on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install ghc-ghc

Install ghc-ghc on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install ghc-ghc

How To Uninstall ghc-ghc on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove ghc-ghc

ghc-ghc Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c/d5ef7b5f156a4c48358e1b6c7070c7620247e3
/usr/lib64/libHSghc-8.2.2-ghc8.2.2.so

References

• ghc-ghc website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-ghc on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.