How To Install haxe on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install haxe on Rocky Linux 8. haxe is Multi-target universal programming language

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install haxe on Rocky Linux 8.

What is haxe

Haxe is an open source toolkit based on a modern, high level, strictly typed programming language, a cross-compiler, a complete cross-platform standard library and ways to access each platform’s native capabilities.

We can use yum or dnf to install haxe on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install haxe.

Install haxe 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 haxe using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install haxe

Install haxe 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 haxe using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install haxe

How To Uninstall haxe on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the haxe package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove haxe

haxe Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/haxe
/usr/bin/haxelib
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3/9a7b700b5f8de0d4d4e3a6fa187bf0e1074f6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/2dc17511fbc5357dff7bdca7473d0476033e00
/usr/share/doc/haxe
/usr/share/doc/haxe/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/haxe
/usr/share/licenses/haxe/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/haxe.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/haxelib.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install haxe on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.