How To Install compat-guile18 on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-guile18 on CentOS 7. compat-guile18 is A GNU implementation of Scheme for application extensibility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-guile18 on CentOS 7.

What is compat-guile18

GUILE (GNU’s Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension) is a library implementation of the Scheme programming language, written in C. GUILE provides a machine-independent execution platform that can be linked in as a library during the building of extensible programs. Install the compat-guile18 package if you’d like to add extensibility to programs that you are developing.

We can use yum or dnf to install compat-guile18 on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install compat-guile18.

Install compat-guile18 on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install compat-guile18 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install compat-guile18

Install compat-guile18 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.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install compat-guile18 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install compat-guile18

How To Uninstall compat-guile18 on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the compat-guile18 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove compat-guile18

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-guile18 on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.