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Divine Bicycle

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Registered: 2022-12-17

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Recommended way of installing Dune and other tools (OCaml)

What's the recommended way to install Dune and other OCaml tools such as the OCaml lsp, etc, I see there's a package for Dune in the community repo, but on the OCaml website it recommends installing all the tools through opam as follows:

opam install dune merlin ocaml-lsp-server odoc ocamlformat utop dune-release

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Is the usual way on Arch to use opam or pacman? Thanks in advance.

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Recommended way of installing Dune and other tools (OCaml)

Everything is installed within a local opam directory, that can include multiple installation prefixes with different sets of intalled packages.

If you want systemwide installs of those tools, use pacman .

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Divine Bicycle

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Re: Recommended way of installing Dune and other tools (OCaml)

I see, I will use opam then as it seems to be what the developers of Dune recommend.