How To Install ghc-explicit-exception on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-explicit-exception in Fedora 36. ghc-explicit-exception is Exceptions which are explicit in the type signature

Introduction

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

What is ghc-explicit-exception

Synchronous and Asynchronous exceptions which are explicit in the type signature. The first ones are very similar to ‘Either’ and ‘Control.Monad.Error.ErrorT’. The second ones are used for ‘System.IO.readFile’ and ‘System.IO.hGetContents’. This package is a proposal for improved exception handling in Haskell. It strictly separates between handling of exceptional situations (file not found, invalid user input, see <http (division by zero, index out of range, see <http called “exception handling”, whereas handling of errors is better known as “debugging”.

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

Install ghc-explicit-exception 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-explicit-exception using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ghc-explicit-exception

Install ghc-explicit-exception 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-explicit-exception using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ghc-explicit-exception

How To Uninstall ghc-explicit-exception on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove ghc-explicit-exception

ghc-explicit-exception Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/cd53e107946462b50e73a286eda41ae48aed43
/usr/lib64/libHSexplicit-exception-0.1.10-6xhZF4JrPLdKJIZts80Q3z-ghc8.10.5.so
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-explicit-exception
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-explicit-exception/LICENSE

References

Summary

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