How To Install ocaml-yojson on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install ocaml-yojson on CentOS 7. ocaml-yojson is An optimized parsing and printing library for the JSON format

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ocaml-yojson on CentOS 7.

What is ocaml-yojson

Yojson is an optimized parsing and printing library for the JSON format. It addresses a few shortcomings of json-wheel including 2x speedup, polymorphic variants and optional syntax for tuples and variants. ydump is a pretty-printing command-line program provided with the yojson package. The program atdgen can be used to derive OCaml-JSON serializers and deserializers from type definitions.

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

Install ocaml-yojson 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-yojson using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ocaml-yojson

Install ocaml-yojson 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-yojson using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ocaml-yojson

How To Uninstall ocaml-yojson on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the ocaml-yojson package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ocaml-yojson

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Summary

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