How To Install ghc-bytestring on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-bytestring on CentOS 8.
What is ghc-bytestring
This package provides the Haskell bytestring library.
We can use yum or dnf to install ghc-bytestring on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ghc-bytestring.
Install ghc-bytestring 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-bytestring using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ghc-bytestring
Install ghc-bytestring 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-bytestring using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ghc-bytestring
How To Uninstall ghc-bytestring on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the ghc-bytestring package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ghc-bytestring
ghc-bytestring Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2/e70b1c655df27b603173533aa527303be0d29a
/usr/lib64/libHSbytestring-0.10.8.2-ghc8.2.2.so
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-bytestring
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-bytestring/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-bytestring on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.