How To Install cab on Fedora 34

cab is Maintenance command for Haskell cabal packages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cab on Fedora 34.

What is `cab`

Cab provides a maintenance command for Haskell cabal packages. It is partly a wrapper of ghc-pkg and cabal. If you get confused by the differences between the two commands, need a way to check all outdated packages, or to remove outdated packages recursively, this command will help.

We can use yum or dnf to install cab on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cab.

Install cab on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cab using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cab

Install cab on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cab using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cab

How To Uninstall cab on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove cab

cab Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/cab
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/c3604275622ceacbfd5c003d5fed30a4e9bdcc
/usr/share/licenses/cab
/usr/share/licenses/cab/LICENSE

References

cab website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cab on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.