How To Install shake on Fedora 34

shake is Build system library, like Make, but more accurate dependencies

Introduction

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

What is `shake`

Shake is a Haskell library for writing build systems - designed as a replacement for ‘make’. See “Development.Shake” for an introduction, including an example. The homepage contains links to a user manual, an academic paper and further information To use Shake the user writes a Haskell program that imports “Development.Shake”, defines some build rules, and calls the ‘Development.Shake.shakeArgs’ function. Thanks to do notation and infix operators, a simple Shake build system is not too dissimilar from a simple Makefile. However, as build systems get more complex, Shake is able to take advantage of the excellent abstraction facilities offered by Haskell and easily support much larger projects. The Shake library provides all the standard features available in other build systems, including automatic parallelism and minimal rebuilds. Shake also provides more accurate dependency tracking, including seamless support for generated files, and dependencies on system information (e.g. compiler version).

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

Install shake 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 shake using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install shake

Install shake 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 shake using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install shake

How To Uninstall shake on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove shake

shake Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/shake
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e/a1bd77b2557f9106ab5faef1283288f3344107

References

shake website

Summary

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