How To Install clojure on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clojure
on CentOS 7.
What is clojure
Clojure is a dynamic programming language that targets the Java Virtual Machine. It is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming. Clojure is a compiled language - it compiles directly to JVM bytecode, yet remains completely dynamic. Every feature supported by Clojure is supported at runtime. Clojure provides easy access to the Java frameworks, with optional type hints and type inference, to ensure that calls to Java can avoid reflection.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install clojure
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install clojure.
Install clojure on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install clojure
using yum
by running the following command:
Install clojure on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install clojure
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall clojure on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the clojure
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clojure
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.