How To Install ocaml-perl4caml on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ocaml-perl4caml in Fedora 36. ocaml-perl4caml is OCaml library for calling Perl libraries and code

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ocaml-perl4caml on Fedora 36.

What is ocaml-perl4caml

Perl4caml allows you to use Perl code within Objective CAML (OCaml), thus neatly side-stepping the (old) problem with OCaml which was that it lacked a comprehensive set of libraries. Well now you can use any part of CPAN in your OCaml code.

We can use yum or dnf to install ocaml-perl4caml on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ocaml-perl4caml.

Install ocaml-perl4caml 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-perl4caml using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ocaml-perl4caml

Install ocaml-perl4caml 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-perl4caml using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ocaml-perl4caml

How To Uninstall ocaml-perl4caml on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the ocaml-perl4caml package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ocaml-perl4caml

ocaml-perl4caml Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/META
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/perl.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/perl4caml.cma
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/pl_Data_Dumper.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/pl_Date_Calc.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/pl_Date_Format.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/pl_Date_Parse.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/pl_HTML_Element.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/pl_HTML_Form.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/pl_HTML_Parser.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/pl_HTML_TreeBuilder.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/pl_HTTP_Cookies.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/pl_HTTP_Headers.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/pl_HTTP_Message.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/pl_HTTP_Request.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/pl_HTTP_Request_Common.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/pl_HTTP_Response.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/pl_LWP_UserAgent.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/pl_Net_Google.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/pl_Net_Google_Cache.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/pl_Net_Google_Response.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/pl_Net_Google_Search.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/pl_Net_Google_Spelling.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/pl_Template.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/pl_URI.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/perl/pl_WWW_Mechanize.cmi
/usr/lib64/ocaml/stublibs/dllperl4caml.so
/usr/share/doc/ocaml-perl4caml
/usr/share/doc/ocaml-perl4caml/COPYING.LIB

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ocaml-perl4caml on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).