How To Install ghc-binary on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-binary on CentOS 8.
What is ghc-binary
This package provides the Haskell binary library.
We can use yum or dnf to install ghc-binary on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ghc-binary.
Install ghc-binary 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 ghc-binary using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ghc-binary
Install ghc-binary 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 ghc-binary using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ghc-binary
How To Uninstall ghc-binary on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the ghc-binary package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ghc-binary
ghc-binary Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3/3b8bae7052c0ed334e4257c4f6740509fdcfc5
/usr/lib64/libHSbinary-0.8.5.1-ghc8.2.2.so
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-binary
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-binary/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-binary on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.