How To Install ocaml-extlib on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ocaml-extlib on CentOS 7.
What is ocaml-extlib
ExtLib is a project aiming at providing a complete - yet small - standard library for the OCaml programming language. The purpose of this library is to add new functions to OCaml Standard Library modules, to modify some functions in order to get better performances or more safety (tail-recursive) but also to provide new modules which should be useful for the average OCaml programmer.
We can use yum or dnf to install ocaml-extlib on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ocaml-extlib.
Install ocaml-extlib on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install ocaml-extlib using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ocaml-extlib
Install ocaml-extlib 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 ocaml-extlib using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ocaml-extlib
How To Uninstall ocaml-extlib on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the ocaml-extlib package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ocaml-extlib
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ocaml-extlib on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
