How To Install cabal-rpm on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install cabal-rpm in Fedora 36. cabal-rpm is RPM packaging tool for Haskell Cabal-based packages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cabal-rpm on Fedora 36.

What is `cabal-rpm`

This package provides a RPM packaging tool for Haskell Cabal-based packages. cabal-rpm has commands to generate a RPM spec file and srpm for a package. It can rpmbuild packages, yum/dnf install their dependencies, prep packages, and install them. There are commands to list package dependencies and missing dependencies. The diff command compares the current spec file with a freshly generated one, the update command updates the spec file to latest version from Stackage or Hackage, and the refresh command updates the spec file to the current cabal-rpm packaging. It also handles Hackage revisions of packages. Standalone packages can also be made, built with cabal-install.

We can use yum or dnf to install cabal-rpm on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cabal-rpm.

Install cabal-rpm on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install cabal-rpm

Install cabal-rpm on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install cabal-rpm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cabal-rpm

How To Uninstall cabal-rpm on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the cabal-rpm package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cabal-rpm

cabal-rpm Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/cabal-rpm
/usr/bin/cblrpm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e/17685d6006a5e0a6dbb13322cd9a205a0e0749
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/cabal-rpm
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/cblrpm
/usr/share/doc/cabal-rpm
/usr/share/doc/cabal-rpm/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/cabal-rpm/README.md
/usr/share/doc/cabal-rpm/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/cabal-rpm
/usr/share/licenses/cabal-rpm/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/cabal-rpm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cblrpm.1.gz

References

cabal-rpm website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cabal-rpm on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).