How To Install ghc-digest on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-digest in Fedora 36. ghc-digest is Cryptographic hashes for bytestrings

Introduction

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

What is `ghc-digest`

This package provides efficient cryptographic hash implementations for strict and lazy bytestrings. For now, CRC32 and Adler32 are supported; they are implemented as FFI bindings to efficient code from zlib.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install ghc-digest

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

sudo yum -y install ghc-digest

How To Uninstall ghc-digest on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove ghc-digest

ghc-digest Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/2aec6051a18031f0734cafcb5699808dac511e
/usr/lib64/libHSdigest-0.0.1.3-4D61QYpuhcI1QRWrapbn9l-ghc8.10.5.so
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-digest
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-digest/LICENSE

References

ghc-digest website

Summary

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