How To Install fennel on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fennel on CentOS 8.
What is fennel
Fennel is a Lisp that compiles to Lua. It aims to be easy to use, expressive, and has almost zero overhead compared to handwritten Lua. * Full Lua compatibility - You can use any function or library from Lua. * Zero overhead - Compiled code should be just as or more efficient than hand-written Lua. * Compile-time macros - Ship compiled code with no runtime dependency on Fennel. * Embeddable - Fennel is a one-file library as well as an executable. Embed it in other programs to support runtime extensibility and interactive development. At https installing anything.
We can use yum or dnf to install fennel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fennel.
Install fennel 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 fennel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fennel
Install fennel 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 fennel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fennel
How To Uninstall fennel on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fennel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fennel
fennel Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/fennel
/usr/share/doc/fennel
/usr/share/doc/fennel/CODE-OF-CONDUCT.md
/usr/share/doc/fennel/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/fennel/README.md
/usr/share/doc/fennel/api.md
/usr/share/doc/fennel/changelog.md
/usr/share/doc/fennel/lua-primer.md
/usr/share/doc/fennel/reference.md
/usr/share/doc/fennel/tutorial.md
/usr/share/licenses/fennel
/usr/share/licenses/fennel/LICENSE
/usr/share/lua/5.3/fennel.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.3/fennelview.lua
/usr/share/man/man1/fennel.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fennel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.