How To Install ghc-ghc-compact on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-ghc-compact on CentOS 8.
What is ghc-ghc-compact
This package provides the Haskell ghc-compact library.
We can use yum or dnf to install ghc-ghc-compact on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ghc-ghc-compact.
Install ghc-ghc-compact 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-compact using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ghc-ghc-compact
Install ghc-ghc-compact 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-compact using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ghc-ghc-compact
How To Uninstall ghc-ghc-compact on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the ghc-ghc-compact package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ghc-ghc-compact
ghc-ghc-compact Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/22/ae5a9fde75cb912daf422a5fecb76e7ff4d49f
/usr/lib64/libHSghc-compact-0.1.0.0-ghc8.2.2.so
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-ghc-compact
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-ghc-compact/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-ghc-compact on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.