How To Install cpphs on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install cpphs on CentOS 7. cpphs is A liberalised C pre-processor for Haskell

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cpphs on CentOS 7.

What is cpphs

Cpphs is a re-implementation of the C pre-processor that is both more compatible with Haskell, and itself written in Haskell so that it can be distributed with compilers. This version of the C pre-processor is pretty-much feature-complete and compatible with traditional (K&R) pre-processors. Additional features include an option to unlit literate code files; and an option to turn off macro-expansion.

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

Install cpphs on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install cpphs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cpphs

Install cpphs 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 cpphs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cpphs

How To Uninstall cpphs on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the cpphs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cpphs

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Summary

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