How To Install fennel on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fennel on Rocky Linux 8.
What is fennel
Fennel is a Lisp that compiles to Lua. It aims to be easy to use, expressive, and has almost zero overhead compared to handwritten Lua. * Full Lua compatibility - You can use any function or library from Lua. * Zero overhead - Compiled code should be just as or more efficient than hand-written Lua. * Compile-time macros - Ship compiled code with no runtime dependency on Fennel. * Embeddable - Fennel is a one-file library as well as an executable. Embed it in other programs to support runtime extensibility and interactive development. At https installing anything.
We can use yum or dnf to install fennel on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fennel.
Install fennel on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install fennel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fennel
Install fennel on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install fennel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fennel
How To Uninstall fennel on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the fennel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fennel
fennel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/fennel
/usr/share/doc/fennel
/usr/share/doc/fennel/CODE-OF-CONDUCT.md
/usr/share/doc/fennel/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/fennel/README.md
/usr/share/doc/fennel/api.md
/usr/share/doc/fennel/changelog.md
/usr/share/doc/fennel/lua-primer.md
/usr/share/doc/fennel/reference.md
/usr/share/doc/fennel/tutorial.md
/usr/share/licenses/fennel
/usr/share/licenses/fennel/LICENSE
/usr/share/lua/5.3/fennel.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.3/fennelview.lua
/usr/share/man/man1/fennel.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fennel on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.