How To Install ghc-scientific on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-scientific on CentOS 7.
What is ghc-scientific
A ‘Scientific’ number is an arbitrary-precision floating-point number represented using scientific notation. A scientific number with coefficient ‘c’ and base10Exponent ’e’ corresponds to the ‘Fractional’ number Its primary use-case is to serve as the target of parsing floating point numbers. Since the textual representation of floating point numbers use scientific notation they can be efficiently parsed to a ‘Scientific’ number.
We can use yum or dnf to install ghc-scientific on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ghc-scientific.
Install ghc-scientific on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install ghc-scientific using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ghc-scientific
Install ghc-scientific 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 ghc-scientific using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ghc-scientific
How To Uninstall ghc-scientific on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the ghc-scientific package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ghc-scientific
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-scientific on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
