How To Install ocaml-yojson on CentOS 7
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.
