How To Install ghc-scientific on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-scientific
on Fedora 36.
What is ghc-scientific
‘Data.Scientific’ provides a space efficient and arbitrary precision scientific number type. A ‘Scientific’ number is represented with coefficient ‘c’ and base10Exponent ’e’ and corresponds to the ‘Fractional’ number ‘fromInteger c * 10 ^^ e’ The main application of ‘Scientific’ is to be used as the target of parsing arbitrary precision numbers coming from an untrusted source.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install ghc-scientific
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ghc-scientific.
Install ghc-scientific 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-scientific
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ghc-scientific
Install ghc-scientific 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-scientific
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ghc-scientific
How To Uninstall ghc-scientific on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the ghc-scientific
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ghc-scientific
ghc-scientific Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d/5f6acc08f82401f84f8c4f9527ab2ca76d0665
/usr/lib64/libHSscientific-0.3.7.0-LDPslsw44qeJsI1zT3N2li-ghc8.10.5.so
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-scientific
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-scientific/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-scientific
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).