How To Install ghc on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc on Rocky Linux 8. ghc is Glasgow Haskell Compiler

Introduction

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

What is ghc

GHC is a state-of-the-art, open source, compiler and interactive environment for the functional language Haskell. Highlights - GHC supports the entire Haskell 2010 language plus a wide variety of extensions. - GHC has particularly good support for concurrency and parallelism, including support for Software Transactional Memory (STM). - GHC generates fast code, particularly for concurrent programs. Take a look at GHC’s performance on The Computer Language Benchmarks Game. - GHC works on several platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux, most varieties of Unix, and several different processor architectures. - GHC has extensive optimisation capabilities, including inter-module optimisation. - GHC compiles Haskell code either directly to native code or using LLVM as a back-end. GHC can also generate C code as an intermediate target for porting to new platforms. The interactive environment compiles Haskell to bytecode, and supports execution of mixed bytecode/compiled programs. - Profiling is supported, both by time/allocation and various kinds of heap profiling. - GHC comes with several libraries, and thousands more are available on Hackage.

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

Install 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 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ghc

Install 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 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ghc

How To Uninstall ghc on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove ghc

ghc Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

References

Summary

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