How To Install nickle on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nickle on CentOS 8.
What is nickle
Nickle is a programming language based prototyping environment with powerful programming and scripting capabilities. Nickle supports a variety of datatypes, especially arbitrary precision numbers. The programming language vaguely resembles C. Some things in C which do not translate easily are different, some design choices have been made differently, and a very few features are simply missing. Nickle provides the functionality of UNIX bc, dc and expr in much-improved form. It is also an ideal environment for prototyping complex algorithms. Nickle’s scripting capabilities make it a nice replacement for spreadsheets in some applications, and its numeric features nicely complement the limited numeric functionality of text-oriented languages such as AWK and PERL.
We can use yum or dnf to install nickle on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nickle.
Install nickle 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 nickle using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nickle
Install nickle 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 nickle using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nickle
How To Uninstall nickle on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the nickle package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nickle
nickle Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/nickle
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/696fde5d864655fb9bb61bdcfd0fa180e9e600
/usr/share/doc/nickle
/usr/share/doc/nickle/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/nickle/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/nickle/README
/usr/share/doc/nickle/README.name
/usr/share/doc/nickle/TODO
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/comb.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/cribbage.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/erat.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/fourfours.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/initializer.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/is-prime.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/kaiser.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/menace2.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/miller-rabin.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/mutextest.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/numbers.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/polynomial.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/prime.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/qbrating.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/randtest.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/restart.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/roman.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/rsa-demo.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/rsa.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/skiplisttest.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/smlng
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/smlng/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/smlng/context.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/smlng/data.sgml
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/smlng/generate.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/smlng/parse.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/smlng/test.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/sudoku.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/turtle
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/turtle/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/turtle/snowflake.5c
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/turtle/snowflake.tex
/usr/share/doc/nickle/examples/turtle/turtle.5c
/usr/share/licenses/nickle
/usr/share/licenses/nickle/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/nickle.1.gz
/usr/share/nickle
/usr/share/nickle/abort.5c
/usr/share/nickle/arc4.5c
/usr/share/nickle/builtin.5c
/usr/share/nickle/command.5c
/usr/share/nickle/ctype.5c
/usr/share/nickle/factorial.5c
/usr/share/nickle/file.5c
/usr/share/nickle/gamma.5c
/usr/share/nickle/history.5c
/usr/share/nickle/json.5c
/usr/share/nickle/list.5c
/usr/share/nickle/math.5c
/usr/share/nickle/mutex.5c
/usr/share/nickle/parse-args.5c
/usr/share/nickle/prime_sieve.5c
/usr/share/nickle/printf.5c
/usr/share/nickle/prng.5c
/usr/share/nickle/process.5c
/usr/share/nickle/scanf.5c
/usr/share/nickle/skiplist.5c
/usr/share/nickle/socket.5c
/usr/share/nickle/sort.5c
/usr/share/nickle/string.5c
/usr/share/nickle/svg.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test
/usr/share/nickle/test/arraytest.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/datetest.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/factorial.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/gcdtest.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/hashtest.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/inttest.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/is_type.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/jsontest.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/math-tables.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/math.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/modtest.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/optest.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/orderofoptest.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/rattest.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/reftest.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/round.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/scanf.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/signal.5c
/usr/share/nickle/test/string-file.5c
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nickle on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.