How To Install cl-abnf on Debian 10

Learn how to install cl-abnf on Debian 10 with this tutorial. cl-abnf is Common Lisp ABNF parser generator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cl-abnf on Debian 10.

What is cl-abnf

cl-abnf is:

The generated parser is a regular expression scanner provided by the http://weitz.de/cl-ppcre/ lib, which means that we can’t parse recursive grammar definition. One such definition is the ABNF definition as given by the RFC. Fortunately, as you have this lib, you most probably don’t need to generate another parser to handle that particular ABNF grammar.

There are three methods to install cl-abnf on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install cl-abnf Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install cl-abnf using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install cl-abnf

Install cl-abnf Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install cl-abnf using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install cl-abnf

Install cl-abnf Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install cl-abnf using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cl-abnf

How To Uninstall cl-abnf on Debian 10

To uninstall only the cl-abnf package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cl-abnf

Uninstall cl-abnf And Its Dependencies

To uninstall cl-abnf and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cl-abnf

Remove cl-abnf Configurations and Data

To remove cl-abnf configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cl-abnf

Remove cl-abnf configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove cl-abnf configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cl-abnf

Dependencies

cl-abnf have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cl-abnf package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.