How To Install ocaml-qtest on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install ocaml-qtest on Rocky Linux 8. ocaml-qtest is Inline (Unit) Tests for OCaml

Introduction

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

What is `ocaml-qtest`

qtest extracts inline unit tests written using a special syntax in comments. Those tests are then run using the oUnit framework and the qcheck library. The possibilities range from trivial tests – extremely simple to use – to sophisticated random generation of test cases.

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

Install ocaml-qtest 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 ocaml-qtest using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ocaml-qtest

Install ocaml-qtest 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 ocaml-qtest using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ocaml-qtest

How To Uninstall ocaml-qtest on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove ocaml-qtest

ocaml-qtest Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/qtest
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f/65109fd187a02c726c44f137bbb3473379e20e
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd/3f466f02685ca50e326ac358838732333c7006
/usr/lib64/ocaml/qtest
/usr/lib64/ocaml/qtest/META
/usr/lib64/ocaml/qtest/dune-package
/usr/lib64/ocaml/qtest/lib
/usr/lib64/ocaml/qtest/lib/qtestlib.cma
/usr/lib64/ocaml/qtest/lib/qtestlib.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/qtest/lib/qtestlib.cmt
/usr/lib64/ocaml/qtest/lib/qtestlib.cmxs
/usr/lib64/ocaml/qtest/lib/qtestlib.ml
/usr/lib64/ocaml/qtest/opam
/usr/share/doc/ocaml-qtest
/usr/share/doc/ocaml-qtest/HOWTO.adoc
/usr/share/doc/ocaml-qtest/README.adoc
/usr/share/licenses/ocaml-qtest
/usr/share/licenses/ocaml-qtest/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/qtest.1.gz

References

ocaml-qtest website

Summary

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