How To Install ghc-temporary on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-temporary in Fedora 36. ghc-temporary is Portable temporary file and directory support

Introduction

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

What is `ghc-temporary`

The functions for creating temporary files and directories in the base library are quite limited. The unixutils package contains some good ones, but they aren’t portable to Windows. This library just repackages the Cabal implementations of its own temporary file and folder functions so that you can use them without linking against Cabal or depending on it being installed.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install ghc-temporary

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

sudo yum -y install ghc-temporary

How To Uninstall ghc-temporary on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove ghc-temporary

ghc-temporary Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/19
/usr/lib/.build-id/19/06ba17beeaaab14eca534b4db0fb53f88a0d81
/usr/lib64/libHStemporary-1.3-6I88ZxT6w4m67ILJdeswJr-ghc8.10.5.so
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-temporary
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-temporary/LICENSE

References

ghc-temporary website

Summary

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