How To Install nickle on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install nickle on Rocky Linux 8. nickle is A programming language-based prototyping environment

Introduction

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

What is nickle

Nickle is a programming language based prototyping environment with powerful programming and scripting capabilities. Nickle supports a variety of datatypes, especially arbitrary precision numbers. The programming language vaguely resembles C. Some things in C which do not translate easily are different, some design choices have been made differently, and a very few features are simply missing. Nickle provides the functionality of UNIX bc, dc and expr in much-improved form. It is also an ideal environment for prototyping complex algorithms. Nickle’s scripting capabilities make it a nice replacement for spreadsheets in some applications, and its numeric features nicely complement the limited numeric functionality of text-oriented languages such as AWK and PERL.

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

Install nickle 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 nickle using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nickle

Install nickle 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 nickle using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nickle

How To Uninstall nickle on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove nickle

nickle Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/nickle
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/696fde5d864655fb9bb61bdcfd0fa180e9e600
/usr/share/doc/nickle
/usr/share/doc/nickle/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/nickle/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/nickle/README
/usr/share/doc/nickle/README.name
/usr/share/doc/nickle/TODO
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/comb.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/cribbage.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/erat.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/fourfours.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/initializer.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/is-prime.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/kaiser.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/menace2.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/miller-rabin.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/mutextest.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/numbers.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/polynomial.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/prime.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/qbrating.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/randtest.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/restart.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/roman.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/rsa-demo.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/rsa.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/skiplisttest.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/smlng
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/smlng/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/smlng/context.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/smlng/data.sgml
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/smlng/generate.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/smlng/parse.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/smlng/test.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/sudoku.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/turtle
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/turtle/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/turtle/snowflake.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/turtle/snowflake.tex
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/turtle/turtle.5c
/usr/share/licenses/nickle
/usr/share/licenses/nickle/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/nickle.1.gz
/usr/share/nickle
/usr/share/nickle/abort.5c
/usr/share/nickle/arc4.5c
/usr/share/nickle/builtin.5c
/usr/share/nickle/command.5c
/usr/share/nickle/ctype.5c
/usr/share/nickle/factorial.5c
/usr/share/nickle/file.5c
/usr/share/nickle/gamma.5c
/usr/share/nickle/history.5c
/usr/share/nickle/json.5c
/usr/share/nickle/list.5c
/usr/share/nickle/math.5c
/usr/share/nickle/mutex.5c
/usr/share/nickle/parse-args.5c
/usr/share/nickle/prime_sieve.5c
/usr/share/nickle/printf.5c
/usr/share/nickle/prng.5c
/usr/share/nickle/process.5c
/usr/share/nickle/scanf.5c
/usr/share/nickle/skiplist.5c
/usr/share/nickle/socket.5c
/usr/share/nickle/sort.5c
/usr/share/nickle/string.5c
/usr/share/nickle/svg.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test
/usr/share/nickle/test/arraytest.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/datetest.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/factorial.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/gcdtest.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/hashtest.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/inttest.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/is_type.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/jsontest.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/math-tables.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/math.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/modtest.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/optest.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/orderofoptest.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/rattest.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/reftest.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/round.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/scanf.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/signal.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/string-file.5c

References

Summary

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