How To Install colm on CentOS 8

colm is Programming language designed for the analysis of computer languages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install colm on CentOS 8.

What is colm

Colm is a programming language designed for the analysis and transformation of computer languages. Colm is influenced primarily by TXL. It is in the family of program transformation languages.

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

Install colm on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install colm

Install colm on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install colm

How To Uninstall colm on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove colm

colm Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/colm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/53
/usr/lib/.build-id/53/9f037fbbcf9966cc81378cd918de7022e0e745
/usr/lib/.build-id/73
/usr/lib/.build-id/73/bf7df717bed64ddc7c584c0c6e183455b311e4
/usr/lib64/libcolm-0.13.0.7.so
/usr/share/doc/colm
/usr/share/doc/colm/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/colm/README
/usr/share/licenses/colm
/usr/share/licenses/colm/COPYING
/usr/share/vim
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/syntax
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/syntax/colm.vim

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install colm on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.