How To Install ghc on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc on AlmaLinux 8.
What is ghc
GHC is a state-of-the-art, open source, compiler and interactive environment for the functional language Haskell. Highlights - GHC supports the entire Haskell 2010 language plus a wide variety of extensions. - GHC has particularly good support for concurrency and parallelism, including support for Software Transactional Memory (STM). - GHC generates fast code, particularly for concurrent programs. Take a look at GHC’s performance on The Computer Language Benchmarks Game. - GHC works on several platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux, most varieties of Unix, and several different processor architectures. - GHC has extensive optimisation capabilities, including inter-module optimisation. - GHC compiles Haskell code either directly to native code or using LLVM as a back-end. GHC can also generate C code as an intermediate target for porting to new platforms. The interactive environment compiles Haskell to bytecode, and supports execution of mixed bytecode/compiled programs. - Profiling is supported, both by time/allocation and various kinds of heap profiling. - GHC comes with several libraries, and thousands more are available on Hackage.
We can use yum or dnf to install ghc on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ghc.
Install ghc on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install ghc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ghc
Install ghc on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install ghc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ghc
How To Uninstall ghc on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the ghc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ghc
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.