Install Yarn on Rocky Linux 8

Follow through this guide to learn how to install Yarn on Rocky Linux 8. Yarn is an acronym for Yet Another Resource Navigator, and is a fast, secure and reliable JavaScript package manager that is compatible with npm registry and can be used with npm.

Install Yarn on Rocky Linux 8

There are two ways in which you can install Yarn on Rocky Linux 8.

Install Yarn on Rocky Linux 8 via npm

Install Nodejs on Rocky Linux.

dnf install nodejs

Nodejs provided npm package which you can use to install Yarn on Rocky Linux 8.

To install Yarn on Rocky Linux 8 using the npm package, run the command below;

npm install -g yarn

Confirm the installed version;

yarn -v

Sample output;

1.22.11

You can check the current versions of yarn on the releases page.

Install Yarn from Yarn Repo via YUM/DNF package manager

You can also install Yarn from their official repositories.

Install Yarn repository;

dnf config-manager --add-repo=https://dl.yarnpkg.com/rpm/yarn.repo

Install repository signing gpg keys;

rpm --import https://dl.yarnpkg.com/rpm/pubkey.gpg

Install Yarn on Rocky Linux 8;

dnf install yarn

Sample output;

Dependencies resolved.
============================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                              Architecture               Version                                                                Repository                     Size
============================================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 yarn                                 noarch                     1.22.5-1                                                               yarn                          1.2 M
Installing dependencies:
 nodejs                               x86_64                     1:10.24.0-1.module+el8.3.0+101+f84c7154                                appstream                     8.8 M
 npm                                  x86_64                     1:6.14.11-1.10.24.0.1.module+el8.3.0+101+f84c7154                      appstream                     3.7 M
Installing weak dependencies:
 nodejs-full-i18n                     x86_64                     1:10.24.0-1.module+el8.3.0+101+f84c7154                                appstream                     7.3 M

Transaction Summary
============================================================================================================================================================================
Install  4 Packages

Total download size: 21 M
Installed size: 76 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y

Once installed, you should have yarn in your current.

Note that the version of Yarn installed via the Yarn repositories may not be up-to-date as compared to the version of Yarn installed via npm.

yarn -v
1.22.5

Using Yarn

You can now check Yarn documentation on how to get started with Yarn.

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