How To Install ghc-ghc-boot on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-ghc-boot on CentOS 8.
What is ghc-ghc-boot
This package provides the Haskell ghc-boot library.
We can use yum or dnf to install ghc-ghc-boot on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ghc-ghc-boot.
Install ghc-ghc-boot 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-ghc-boot using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ghc-ghc-boot
Install ghc-ghc-boot 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-ghc-boot using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ghc-ghc-boot
How To Uninstall ghc-ghc-boot on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the ghc-ghc-boot package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ghc-ghc-boot
ghc-ghc-boot Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/711f0d37d93950391fdb826589c70e21157931
/usr/lib64/libHSghc-boot-8.2.2-ghc8.2.2.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-ghc-boot on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
