How To Install sisc on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install sisc

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install sisc

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is sisc and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install sisc on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install sisc on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install sisc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sisc

Install sisc on CentOS 8 using yum

Because sisc is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install sisc package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sisc

How to upgrade (update) a single package sisc using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like sisc in this example you should use the following command:

yum update sisc

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade sisc

How to Upgrade sisc on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update sisc

How To remove sisc from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the sisc package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove sisc

Extra info and code examples

SISC is an extensible Java based interpreter of the algorithmic language Scheme. SISC uses modern interpretation techniques, and handily outperforms all existing JVM interpreters (often by more than an order of magnitude). In addition, SISC is a complete implementation of the language. The entire R5RS Scheme standard is supported, no exceptions. This includes a full number tower including complex number support, arbitrary precision integers and floating point numbers, as well as hygenic R5RS macros, proper tail recursion, and first-class continuations (not just the escaping continuations as in many limited Scheme systems). SISC also attempts to implement the standard as correctly as possible, while still providing exceptional performance. SISC also provides useful real-world extensions, such as networking, elegant exception handling, a scope-friendly module system, support for SLIB, numerous SRFIs, and a Java foreign-function interface.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install sisc using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the sisc from CentOS 8.

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