How To Install hlint on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install hlint on CentOS 7. hlint is Haskell source code suggestions

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hlint on CentOS 7.

What is hlint

HLint gives suggestions on how to improve your source code.

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

Install hlint on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install hlint using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hlint

Install hlint 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 hlint using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install hlint

How To Uninstall hlint on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove hlint

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Summary

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