How To Install hscolour on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install hscolour on Rocky Linux 8. hscolour is Colorize Haskell code

Introduction

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

What is hscolour

Hscolour is a Haskell tool to colorize Haskell code. It currently has six output formats HTML 3.2 with tags, HTML 4.01 with CSS, HTML 4.01 with CSS and mouseover annotations, XHTML 1.0 with inline CSS styling, LaTeX, and mIRC chat codes.

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

Install hscolour 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 hscolour using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install hscolour

Install hscolour 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 hscolour using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hscolour

How To Uninstall hscolour on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove hscolour

hscolour Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/HsColour
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/90fd61dba0e9cb3dcdd46cd09a3798bd623611
/usr/share/hscolour-1.24.2
/usr/share/hscolour-1.24.2/data
/usr/share/hscolour-1.24.2/data/rgb24-example-.hscolour
/usr/share/hscolour-1.24.2/hscolour.css
/usr/share/licenses/hscolour
/usr/share/licenses/hscolour/LICENCE-LGPL

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Summary

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