How To Install ghc-tagged on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-tagged on CentOS 7. ghc-tagged is Newtype wrappers for phantom types

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-tagged on CentOS 7.

What is `ghc-tagged`

Haskell 98 phantom types to avoid unsafely passing dummy arguments.

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

Install ghc-tagged 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-tagged using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ghc-tagged

Install ghc-tagged 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-tagged using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ghc-tagged

How To Uninstall ghc-tagged on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the ghc-tagged package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ghc-tagged

References

ghc-tagged website

Summary

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