How To Install swift-lang on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install swift-lang on CentOS 8.
What is swift-lang
Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns. The goal of the Swift project is to create the best available language for uses ranging from systems programming, to mobile and desktop apps, scaling up to cloud services. Most importantly, Swift is designed to make writing and maintaining correct programs easier for the developer.
We can use yum or dnf to install swift-lang on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install swift-lang.
Install swift-lang on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install swift-lang using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install swift-lang
Install swift-lang on CentOS 8 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 swift-lang using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install swift-lang
How To Uninstall swift-lang on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the swift-lang package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove swift-lang
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install swift-lang on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.