How To Install ghc-cabal-helper on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-cabal-helper in Fedora 36. ghc-cabal-helper is Give Haskell development tools access to Cabal project environment

Introduction

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

What is `ghc-cabal-helper`

The purpose of the ‘cabal-helper’ library is to give Haskell development tools access to the same environment which build tools such as ‘cabal’ and ‘stack’ normally provide to the compiler.

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

Install ghc-cabal-helper 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 ghc-cabal-helper using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ghc-cabal-helper

Install ghc-cabal-helper 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 ghc-cabal-helper using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ghc-cabal-helper

How To Uninstall ghc-cabal-helper on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove ghc-cabal-helper

ghc-cabal-helper Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/23
/usr/lib/.build-id/23/6a4565027147d2ff6d7ead4fd97fed9334adc8
/usr/lib64/libHScabal-helper-1.1.0.0-8Jw8PbrXIiY4xY2BgtTtpn-ghc8.10.5.so
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-cabal-helper
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-cabal-helper/LICENSE

References

ghc-cabal-helper website

Summary

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