How To Install fennel on CentOS 8

fennel is A Lisp that compiles to Lua

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.