How To Install gforth-common on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install gforth-common on Debian 9. gforth-common is GNU Forth architecture-independent dictionaries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gforth-common on Debian 9.

What is gforth-common

gforth-common is:

This is the GNU’ish implementation of a Forth programming environment.

Forth, as a language, is best known for being stack-based, and completely extensible. Each Forth environment provides one or more dictionaries of pre-defined words, and programming in Forth consists of defining and executing new words that are combinations of previously defined words. It has been said that learning Forth changes forever the way you think about writing programs.

This package provides the architecture-independent Forth dictionaries.

There are three methods to install gforth-common on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install gforth-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gforth-common

Install gforth-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gforth-common

Install gforth-common 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 gforth-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gforth-common

How To Uninstall gforth-common on Debian 9

To uninstall only the gforth-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gforth-common

Uninstall gforth-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gforth-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gforth-common

Remove gforth-common Configurations and Data

To remove gforth-common configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gforth-common

Remove gforth-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gforth-common

Dependencies

gforth-common have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gforth-common package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.