How To Install ghcid on Fedora 34

ghcid is GHCi based bare bones IDE

Introduction

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

What is `ghcid`

Either “GHCi as a daemon” or “GHC + a bit of an IDE”. A very simple Haskell development tool which shows you the errors in your project and updates them whenever you save. Run ‘ghcid –command=ghci’, where ‘–command’ is the command to start GHCi on your project (defaults to ‘ghci’ if you have a ‘.ghci’ file, or else to ‘cabal repl’).

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

Install ghcid 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 ghcid using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ghcid

Install ghcid 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 ghcid using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ghcid

How To Uninstall ghcid on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove ghcid

ghcid Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/ghcid
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/baea78ce0c15277a230cc5203befc5f29e0727
/usr/share/doc/ghcid
/usr/share/doc/ghcid/CHANGES.txt
/usr/share/doc/ghcid/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/ghcid
/usr/share/licenses/ghcid/LICENSE

References

ghcid website

Summary

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