How To Install hscolour on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hscolour on CentOS 8.
What is hscolour
Hscolour is a Haskell tool to colorize Haskell code. It currently has six output formats HTML 3.2 with tags, HTML 4.01 with CSS, HTML 4.01 with CSS and mouseover annotations, XHTML 1.0 with inline CSS styling, LaTeX, and mIRC chat codes.
We can use yum or dnf to install hscolour on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hscolour.
Install hscolour 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 hscolour using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install hscolour
Install hscolour 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 hscolour using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install hscolour
How To Uninstall hscolour on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the hscolour package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove hscolour
hscolour Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/HsColour
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/90fd61dba0e9cb3dcdd46cd09a3798bd623611
/usr/share/hscolour-1.24.2
/usr/share/hscolour-1.24.2/data
/usr/share/hscolour-1.24.2/data/rgb24-example-.hscolour
/usr/share/hscolour-1.24.2/hscolour.css
/usr/share/licenses/hscolour
/usr/share/licenses/hscolour/LICENCE-LGPL
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hscolour on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
