How To Install ghc-system-fileio on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-system-fileio in Fedora 36. ghc-system-fileio is Consistent filesystem interaction across GHC versions (deprecated)

Introduction

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

What is ghc-system-fileio

This is a small wrapper around the “directory”, “unix”, and “Win32” packages, for use with “system-filepath”. It provides a consistent API to the various versions of these packages distributed with different versions of GHC. In particular, this library supports working with POSIX files that have paths which can’t be decoded in the current locale encoding.

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

Install ghc-system-fileio 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-system-fileio using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ghc-system-fileio

Install ghc-system-fileio 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-system-fileio using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ghc-system-fileio

How To Uninstall ghc-system-fileio on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove ghc-system-fileio

ghc-system-fileio Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/cb3390176dac7afe357d111d520eecf78ab334
/usr/lib64/libHSsystem-fileio-0.3.16.4-6pcOjkl2Qx1A09mTHb8JEG-ghc8.10.5.so
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-system-fileio
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-system-fileio/license.txt

References

Summary

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