How To Install haxe on CentOS 8

haxe is Multi-target universal programming language

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install haxe on CentOS 8.

What is haxe

Haxe is an open source toolkit based on a modern, high level, strictly typed programming language, a cross-compiler, a complete cross-platform standard library and ways to access each platform’s native capabilities.

We can use yum or dnf to install haxe on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install haxe.

Install haxe 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 haxe using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install haxe

Install haxe 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 haxe using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install haxe

How To Uninstall haxe on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the haxe package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove haxe

haxe Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/haxe
/usr/bin/haxelib
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3/9a7b700b5f8de0d4d4e3a6fa187bf0e1074f6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/2dc17511fbc5357dff7bdca7473d0476033e00
/usr/share/doc/haxe
/usr/share/doc/haxe/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/haxe
/usr/share/licenses/haxe/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/haxe.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/haxelib.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install haxe on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.