How To Install guile on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install guile on AlmaLinux 8.
What is guile
GUILE (GNU’s Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension) is a library implementation of the Scheme programming language, written in C. GUILE provides a machine-independent execution platform that can be linked in as a library during the building of extensible programs. Install the guile package if you’d like to add extensibility to programs that you are developing.
We can use yum or dnf to install guile on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install guile.
Install guile 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 guile using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install guile
Install guile 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 guile using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install guile
How To Uninstall guile on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the guile package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove guile
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install guile on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.