How To Install fennel on Fedora 34

fennel is A Lisp that compiles to Lua

Introduction

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

What is fennel

Fennel is a Lisp that compiles to Lua. It aims to be easy to use, expressive, and has almost zero overhead compared to handwritten Lua. * Full Lua compatibility - You can use any function or library from Lua. * Zero overhead - Compiled code should be just as or more efficient than hand-written Lua. * Compile-time macros - Ship compiled code with no runtime dependency on Fennel. * Embeddable - Fennel is a one-file library as well as an executable. Embed it in other programs to support runtime extensibility and interactive development. At https installing anything.

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

Install fennel 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 fennel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fennel

Install fennel 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 fennel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fennel

How To Uninstall fennel on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove fennel

fennel Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/fennel
/usr/share/doc/fennel
/usr/share/doc/fennel/CODE-OF-CONDUCT.md
/usr/share/doc/fennel/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/fennel/README.md
/usr/share/doc/fennel/api.md
/usr/share/doc/fennel/changelog.md
/usr/share/doc/fennel/lua-primer.md
/usr/share/doc/fennel/reference.md
/usr/share/doc/fennel/tutorial.md
/usr/share/licenses/fennel
/usr/share/licenses/fennel/LICENSE
/usr/share/lua/5.4/fennel.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/fennelview.lua
/usr/share/man/man1/fennel.1.gz

References

Summary

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