How To Install ghc-skein on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-skein in Fedora 36. ghc-skein is Skein, a family of cryptographic hash functions. Includes Skein-MAC as well

Introduction

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

What is ghc-skein

Skein (<http hash functions designed by Niels Ferguson, Stefan Lucks, Bruce Schneier, Doug Whiting, Mihir Bellare, Tadayoshi Kohno, Jon Callas and Jesse Walker. This package uses bindings to the optimized C implementation of Skein. We provide a high-level interface (see module “Crypto.Skein”) to some of the Skein use cases. We also provide a low-level interface (see module “Crypto.Skein.Internal”) should you need to use Skein in a different way. Currently we have support for Skein as cryptographic hash function as Skein as a message authentication code (Skein-MAC). For examples of how to use this package, see “Crypto.Skein” module documentation. This package includes Skein v1.3. Versions of this package before 1.0.0 implemented Skein v1.1.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install ghc-skein

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

sudo yum -y install ghc-skein

How To Uninstall ghc-skein on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove ghc-skein

ghc-skein Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c/5e5d95f6bef8303c2d96474980435570add12d
/usr/lib64/libHSskein-1.0.9.4-7HyYPvfzJrFHP2H5dfKWo1-ghc8.10.5.so
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-skein
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-skein/LICENSE

References

Summary

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