Since Fedora 8, Fedora has excellent support for OCaml in the basic distribution. There is an active group of maintainers, we keep up to date with the latest OCaml, and there is a wide range of packages available.
To install the OCaml compiler just do:
yum install ocaml
To install an OCaml library called 'foo', and any dependencies it needs, you would do:
yum install ocaml-foo-devel
A good set of basic development libraries can be installed by doing:
yum install ocaml-camlp4-devel ocaml-ocamldoc ocaml-findlib-devel \
ocaml-extlib-devel ocaml-calendar-devel
To list all OCaml packages use:
yum search ocaml
To find out about a particular package use (for example):
yum info ocaml-pxp
Status of packages in Fedora, EPEL and RHEL, last updated on 2008-12-20.
| Name | EPEL 4 | EPEL 5 | Fedora 8 | Fedora 9 | Fedora 10 | Devel | Pending |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ocaml Objective Caml compiler and programming environment |
3.09.2 | 3.09.3 | 3.10.0 | 3.10.1 | 3.10.2 | 3.11.0 | |
| ocaml-ancient OCaml library for large memory structures and sharing |
0.8.0 | ||||||
| ocaml-augeas OCaml bindings for Augeas configuration API |
0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |||
| ocaml-bin-prot Read and write OCaml values in a type-safe binary protocol |
1.0.5 | ||||||
| ocaml-bisect OCaml code coverage tool |
1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | ||||
| ocaml-bitstring OCaml library for matching and constructing bitstrings |
1.9.7 | 1.9.7 | 2.0.0 | 2.0.0 | |||
| ocaml-cairo OCaml library for accessing cairo graphics |
1.2.0.cvs20080301 | 1.2.0.cvs20080301 | 1.2.0.cvs20080301 | 1.2.0.cvs20080301 | |||
| ocaml-calendar Objective Caml library for managing dates and times |
1.10 | 1.10 | 2.0.4 | 2.0.4 | 2.0.4 | ||
| ocaml-camlidl Stub code generator and COM binding for Objective Caml |
1.05 | 1.05 | 1.05 | 1.05 | |||
| ocaml-camlimages OCaml image processing library |
2.2.0 | 2.2.0 | 2.2.0 | 2.2.0 | 3.0.1 | 3.0.1 | |
| ocaml-camlp5 Classical version of camlp4 OCaml preprocessor |
5.08 | 5.08 | 5.09 | 5.10 | |||
| ocaml-camomile Unicode library for OCaml |
0.7.1 | 0.7.1 | 0.7.1 | 0.7.1 | 0.7.1 | ||
| ocaml-cil CIL - Infrastructure for C Program Analysis and Transformation |
1.3.6 | 1.3.6 | 1.3.6 | 1.3.6 | |||
| ocaml-cmigrep Search OCaml compiled interface (cmi) files |
1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | ||||
| ocaml-cryptokit OCaml library of cryptographic and hash functions |
1.3 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.3 | |||
| ocaml-csv OCaml library for reading and writing CSV files |
1.1.6 | 1.1.6 | 1.1.6 | 1.1.7 | 1.1.7 | ||
| ocaml-curl OCaml Curl library (ocurl) |
0.2.1 | 0.2.1 | 0.5.0 | 0.5.0 | |||
| ocaml-curses OCaml bindings for ncurses |
0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.0.3 | ||
| ocaml-dbus OCaml library for using D-Bus |
0.03 | 0.06 | 0.07 | 0.07 | |||
| ocaml-deriving Extension to OCaml for deriving functions from types |
0.1.1a | 0.1.1a | 0.1.1a | 0.1.1a | |||
| ocaml-expat OCaml wrapper for the Expat XML parsing library |
0.9.1 | 0.9.1 | 0.9.1 | 0.9.1 | |||
| ocaml-extlib OCaml ExtLib additions to the standard library |
1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5.1 | 1.5.1 | 1.5.1 | ||
| ocaml-facile OCaml library for constraint programming |
1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | |||
| ocaml-fileutils OCaml library for common file and filename operations |
0.3.0 | 0.3.0 | 0.3.0 | 0.3.0 | |||
| ocaml-findlib Objective CAML package manager and build helper |
1.2.1 | 1.1.2pl1 | 1.1.2pl1 | 1.2.1 | 1.2.2 | 1.2.3 | |
| ocaml-gettext OCaml library for i18n |
0.2.0 | 0.2.0 | 0.3.2 | 0.3.2 | |||
| ocaml-gsl Interface to GSL (GNU scientific library) for OCaml |
0.6.0 | 0.6.0 | 0.6.0 | 0.6.0 | 0.6.0 | 0.6.0 | |
| ocaml-janest-core Many and various enhancements to the OCaml standard library |
0.5.0 | ||||||
| ocaml-json-static OCaml JSON validator and converter (syntax extension) |
0.9.6 | 0.9.6 | 0.9.6 | 0.9.6 | |||
| ocaml-json-wheel OCaml library for parsing JSON |
1.0.4 | 1.0.4 | 1.0.4 | 1.0.4 | |||
| ocaml-lablgl LablGL is an OpenGL interface for Objective Caml |
1.02 | 1.02 | 1.03 | 1.03 | 1.03 | ||
| ocaml-lablgtk Objective Caml interface to gtk+ |
2.10.0 | 2.6.0 | 2.10.1 | 2.10.1 | 2.10.1 | ||
| ocaml-lacaml BLAS/LAPACK-interface for OCaml |
4.3.0 | 4.3.0 | 4.3.3 | 4.6.8 | |||
| ocaml-libvirt OCaml binding for libvirt |
0.4.1.1 | 0.4.1.1 | 0.4.1.1 | 0.4.4.2 | 0.4.4.2 | ||
| ocaml-lwt OCaml lightweight thread library |
1.1.0 | 1.1.0 | 1.1.0 | ||||
| ocaml-mikmatch OCaml extension for pattern matching with regexps |
1.0.0 | 1.0.0 | 1.0.0 | ||||
| ocaml-mysql OCaml library for accessing MySQL databases |
1.0.4 | 1.0.4 | 1.0.4 | 1.0.4 | |||
| ocaml-newt OCaml library for using newt text mode window system |
0.9 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.9 | |||
| ocaml-ocamlgraph OCaml library for arc and node graphs |
0.99c | 0.99c | 0.99c | 1.0 | |||
| ocaml-ocamljava Libraries and programs for interfacing OCaml and Java/JVM |
1.0_beta | ||||||
| ocaml-ocamlnet Network protocols for OCaml |
2.2.9 | 2.2.9 | 2.2.9 | 2.2.9 | |||
| ocaml-odbc OCaml library for ODBC database access |
2.15 | ||||||
| ocaml-omake OCaml build system with automated dependency analysis |
0.9.8.5 | 0.9.8.5 | 0.9.8.5 | 0.9.8.5 | 0.9.8.5 | 0.9.8.5 | |
| ocaml-openin OCaml syntax to locally open modules |
20070524 | 20070524 | 20070524 | 20070524 | |||
| ocaml-ounit Unit test framework for OCaml |
1.0.2 | 1.0.2 | 1.0.3 | 1.0.3 | |||
| ocaml-p3l OCaml compiler for parallel programs |
2.03 | ||||||
| ocaml-pa-do OCaml syntax extension for delimited overloading |
0.8.1 | ||||||
| ocaml-pa-monad OCaml syntax extension for monads |
1.2.0 | 1.2.0 | 1.2.0 | 1.2.0 | |||
| ocaml-pcre Perl compatibility regular expressions (PCRE) for OCaml |
5.12.2 | 5.13.0 | 5.15.0 | 5.15.0 | |||
| ocaml-perl4caml OCaml library for calling Perl libraries and code |
0.9.5 | 0.9.5 | 0.9.5 | 0.9.5 | |||
| ocaml-pgocaml OCaml library for type-safe access to PostgreSQL databases |
1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | |||
| ocaml-postgresql OCaml library for accessing PostreSQL databases |
1.7.0 | 1.8.2 | 1.8.2 | 1.9.2 | |||
| ocaml-preludeml OCaml utility functions |
0.1 | ||||||
| ocaml-pxp Validating XML parser |
1.2.0test1 | 1.2.0test1 | 1.2.0test2 | 1.2.0test2 | |||
| ocaml-reins Library of OCaml persistent data structures |
0.1a | 0.1a | 0.1a | ||||
| ocaml-res OCaml library for resizing arrays and strings |
2.2.5 | 2.2.5 | 2.2.6 | 3.0.0 | |||
| ocaml-SDL OCaml bindings for SDL |
0.7.2 | 0.7.2 | 0.7.2 | 0.7.2 | 0.7.2 | 0.7.2 | |
| ocaml-sexplib OCaml library for converting OCaml values to S-expressions |
3.7.4 | 3.7.4 | 4.0.1 | 4.2.1 | |||
| ocaml-sqlite OCaml library for accessing SQLite3 databases |
0.23.0 | 0.23.0 | 1.2.0 | 1.2.0 | |||
| ocaml-ssl SSL bindings for OCaml |
0.4.2 | 0.4.2 | 0.4.2 | 0.4.2 | |||
| ocaml-type-conv OCaml base library for type conversion |
1.5.0 | 1.5.0 | 1.6.1 | 1.6.4 | |||
| ocaml-ulex OCaml lexer generator for Unicode |
1.0 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.1 | |||
| ocaml-xml-light Minimal XML parser and printer for OCaml |
2.2.cvs20070817 | 2.2.cvs20070817 | 2.2.cvs20070817 | 2.2.cvs20070817 | 2.2.cvs20070817 | ||
| ocaml-xmlrpc-light OCaml library for writing XML-RPC clients and servers |
0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | |||
| ocaml-zip OCaml library for reading and writing zip, jar and gzip files |
1.03 | 1.03 | 1.03 | 1.03 | |||
| ocamldsort Dependency sorter for OCaml source files |
0.14.4 | 0.14.4 | 0.14.4 | 0.14.4 | |||
| cduce modern XML-oriented functional language |
0.5.2.1 | 0.5.2.1 | 0.5.2.1 | 0.5.2.1 | |||
| coq Coq proof management system |
8.1pl3 | 8.1pl3 | 8.1pl3 | 8.1pl4 | |||
| emacs-common-tuareg Emacs and XEmacs mode for editing ocaml |
1.45.6 | 1.45.6 | 1.45.6 | 1.45.6 | |||
| felix Felix programming language |
1.1.4_x1 | ||||||
| freetennis Tennis simulation game |
0.4.8 | 0.4.8 | 0.4.8 | 0.4.8 | 0.4.8 | 0.4.8 | |
| haxe Web programming language targeting Flash, Javascript, PHP |
2.0 | ||||||
| hevea LaTeX to HTML translator |
1.09 | 1.10 | 1.10 | 1.10 | |||
| mldonkey MLDonkey is a multi-platform multi-network peer-to-peer client |
2.9.3 | ||||||
| ocsigen Web programming framework |
1.1.0 | ||||||
| plplot Library of functions for making scientific plots |
5.9.0 | 5.9.0 | |||||
| unison213 Multi-master File synchronization tool |
2.13.16 | 2.13.16 | 2.13.16 | 2.13.16 | 2.13.16 | 2.13.16 | |
| unison227 Multi-master File synchronization tool |
2.27.57 | 2.27.57 | 2.27.57 | 2.27.57 | 2.27.57 | 2.27.57 | |
| virt-ctrl Graphical management app for virtual machines |
1.0.1 | 1.0.1 | |||||
| virt-df Utility like 'df' for virtual guests |
2.1.1 | 2.1.1 | 2.1.4 | 2.1.4 | |||
| virt-mem Management tools for virtual machines |
0.2.9 | 0.2.9 | 0.3.1 | 0.3.1 | |||
| virt-top Utility like top(1) for displaying virtualization stats |
1.0.1 | 1.0.1 | 1.0.1 | 1.0.3 | 1.0.3 | ||
| Totals | 9 | 19 | 63 | 68 | 70 | 70 | 12 |
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