How To Install kawa on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install kawa in Fedora 36. kawa is Scheme programming language

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kawa on Fedora 36.

What is kawa

Kawa is an implementation of the Scheme programming language. It is implemented in Java, and compiles Scheme into Java byte-codes. It also includes an XQuery implementation, accessible via the qexo script.

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

Install kawa 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 kawa using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install kawa

Install kawa 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 kawa using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install kawa

How To Uninstall kawa on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the kawa package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove kawa

kawa Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/cgi-servlet
/usr/bin/kawa
/usr/bin/qexo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f/0685aeaabd793f7ee8889fd3724f4c30f91e04
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c/afbc87262b003c8143464d2abbd26b52a5b16b
/usr/share/doc/kawa
/usr/share/doc/kawa/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/kawa/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/kawa/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/kawa/TODO
/usr/share/info/kawa.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/kawa.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/kawa.info-3.gz
/usr/share/info/kawa.info-4.gz
/usr/share/info/kawa.info.gz
/usr/share/java/kawa.jar
/usr/share/kawa/lib/kawa.jar
/usr/share/licenses/kawa
/usr/share/licenses/kawa/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/kawa.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/qexo.1.gz

References

Summary

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