How To Install ghc-th-orphans on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-th-orphans in Fedora 36. ghc-th-orphans is Orphan instances for TH datatypes

Introduction

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

What is `ghc-th-orphans`

Orphan instances for TH datatypes. In particular, instances for Ord and Lift, as well as a few missing Show / Eq. These instances used to live in haskell-src-meta, and that’s where the version number started.

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

Install ghc-th-orphans 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-th-orphans using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ghc-th-orphans

Install ghc-th-orphans 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-th-orphans using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ghc-th-orphans

How To Uninstall ghc-th-orphans on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove ghc-th-orphans

ghc-th-orphans Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/22ee4016ea81fbb401831a23d48226bd9927d6
/usr/lib64/libHSth-orphans-0.13.11-CKzFewFpC3T7zTmOBb2b1F-ghc8.10.5.so
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-th-orphans
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-th-orphans/LICENSE

References

ghc-th-orphans website

Summary

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