How To Install opam on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install opam on Fedora 36.
What is opam
Opam is a source-based package manager for OCaml. It supports multiple simultaneous compiler installations, flexible package constraints, and a Git-friendly development workflow.
We can use yum or dnf to install opam on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install opam.
Install opam 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 opam using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install opam
Install opam 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 opam using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install opam
How To Uninstall opam on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the opam package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove opam
opam Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/opam
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/11
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/b9da0c8cf40d8c2579c99c1a88e8b7b533c9c0
/usr/share/licenses/opam
/usr/share/licenses/opam/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-admin-add-constraint.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-admin-add-hashes.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-admin-cache.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-admin-check.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-admin-filter.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-admin-help.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-admin-index.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-admin-lint.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-admin-list.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-admin-make.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-admin-upgrade.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-admin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-clean.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-config.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-env.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-exec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-help.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-info.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-init.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-install.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-lint.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-list.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-lock.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-option.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-pin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-reinstall.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-remote.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-remove.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-repository.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-search.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-show.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-source.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-switch.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-uninstall.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-unpin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-update.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-upgrade.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam-var.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opam.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install opam on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).