How To Install ocaml-cppo on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ocaml-cppo in Fedora 36. ocaml-cppo is Equivalent of the C preprocessor for OCaml programs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ocaml-cppo on Fedora 36.

What is `ocaml-cppo`

Cppo is an equivalent of the C preprocessor targeted at the OCaml language and its variants. The main purpose of cppo is to provide a lightweight tool for simple macro substitution (＃define) and file inclusion (＃include) for the occasional case when this is useful in OCaml. Processing specific sections of files by calling external programs is also possible via ＃ext directives. The implementation of cppo relies on the standard library of OCaml and on the standard parsing tools Ocamllex and Ocamlyacc, which contribute to the robustness of cppo across OCaml versions.

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

Install ocaml-cppo 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 ocaml-cppo using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ocaml-cppo

Install ocaml-cppo 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 ocaml-cppo using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ocaml-cppo

How To Uninstall ocaml-cppo on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the ocaml-cppo package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ocaml-cppo

ocaml-cppo Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/cppo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f/8773b3daea53d2ed88ea2075230c10d54e986a
/usr/lib64/ocaml/cppo
/usr/lib64/ocaml/cppo/META
/usr/lib64/ocaml/cppo/dune-package
/usr/lib64/ocaml/cppo/opam
/usr/share/doc/ocaml-cppo
/usr/share/doc/ocaml-cppo/Changes
/usr/share/doc/ocaml-cppo/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/ocaml-cppo
/usr/share/licenses/ocaml-cppo/LICENSE.md

References

ocaml-cppo website

Summary

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