How to Install and Uninstall ghc.x86_64 Package on Oracle Linux 8

Last updated: April 29,2024

1. Install "ghc.x86_64" package

This tutorial shows how to install ghc.x86_64 on Oracle Linux 8


    
        
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                sudo dnf update
            
                    
    
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                sudo dnf install
            
                        
                ghc.x86_64
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "ghc.x86_64" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall ghc.x86_64 on Oracle Linux 8:


    
        
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                sudo dnf remove
            
                        
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                sudo dnf autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the ghc.x86_64 package on Oracle Linux 8

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Available Packages
Name : ghc
Version : 8.2.2
Release : 68.4.el8
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 46 k
Source : ghc-8.2.2-68.4.el8.src.rpm
Repository : epel
Summary : Glasgow Haskell Compiler
URL : https://haskell.org/ghc/
License : BSD and HaskellReport
Description : GHC is a state-of-the-art, open source, compiler and interactive environment
: for the functional language Haskell. Highlights:
:
: - GHC supports the entire Haskell 2010 language plus a wide variety of
: extensions.
: - GHC has particularly good support for concurrency and parallelism,
: including support for Software Transactional Memory (STM).
: - GHC generates fast code, particularly for concurrent programs.
: Take a look at GHC's performance on The Computer Language Benchmarks Game.
: - GHC works on several platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux,
: most varieties of Unix, and several different processor architectures.
: - GHC has extensive optimisation capabilities, including inter-module
: optimisation.
: - GHC compiles Haskell code either directly to native code or using LLVM
: as a back-end. GHC can also generate C code as an intermediate target for
: porting to new platforms. The interactive environment compiles Haskell to
: bytecode, and supports execution of mixed bytecode/compiled programs.
: - Profiling is supported, both by time/allocation and various kinds of heap
: profiling.
: - GHC comes with several libraries, and thousands more are available on Hackage.