How To Install idris on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install idris
on CentOS 7.
What is idris
Idris is a general purpose language with full dependent types. It is compiled, with eager evaluation. Dependent types allow types to be predicated on values, meaning that some aspects of a program’s behavior can be specified precisely in the type. The language is closely related to Epigram and Agda. There is a tutorial at <http include - Full dependent types with dependent pattern matching - where clauses, with rule, simple case expressions, pattern matching let and lambda bindings - Type classes, monad comprehensions - do notation, idiom brackets, syntactic conveniences for lists, tuples, dependent pairs - Totality checking - Coinductive types - Indentation significant syntax, extensible syntax - Tactic based theorem proving (influenced by Coq) - Cumulative universes - Simple foreign function interface (to C) - Hugs style interactive environment.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install idris
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install idris.
Install idris on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install idris
using yum
by running the following command:
Install idris 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.
After updating yum database, We can install idris
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall idris on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the idris
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install idris
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.