How To Install ghc-curl on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-curl in Fedora 36. ghc-curl is Haskell binding to libcurl

Introduction

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

What is `ghc-curl`

Libcurl is a client-side URL transfer library, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS and FILE. libcurl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, Kerberos4), file transfer resume, http proxy tunneling and more! This package provides a Haskell binding to libcurl.

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

Install ghc-curl 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-curl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ghc-curl

Install ghc-curl 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-curl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ghc-curl

How To Uninstall ghc-curl on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove ghc-curl

ghc-curl Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7/240f6c5162e8545e1c381fe7a9335eb6b60466
/usr/lib64/libHScurl-1.3.8-IHLZ86WpOZLDtCoHPSD5F-ghc8.10.5.so
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-curl
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-curl/LICENSE

References

ghc-curl website

Summary

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