How To Install moarvm on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install moarvm on Kali Linux. moarvm is virtual machine for Rakudo Perl 6 and NQP

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install moarvm on Kali Linux.

What is moarvm

moarvm is:

Short for “Metamodel On A Runtime”, MoarVM is a modern virtual machine built for the Rakudo Raku (formerly Perl 6) compiler and the NQP Compiler Toolchain. MoarVM is used by the majority of Raku programmers.

Highlights include:

  • Great Unicode support, with strings represented at grapheme level
  • Dynamic analysis of running code to identify hot functions and loops, and perform a range of optimizations, including type specialization and inlining
  • Support for threads, a range of concurrency control constructs, and asynchronous sockets, timers, processes, and more
  • Generational, parallel, garbage collection
  • Support for numerous language features, including first class functions, exceptions, continuations, runtime loading of code, big integers and interfacing with native libraries

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

Install moarvm Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install moarvm

Install moarvm Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install moarvm using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install moarvm

Install moarvm Using aptitude

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

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install moarvm

How To Uninstall moarvm on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the moarvm package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove moarvm

Uninstall moarvm And Its Dependencies

To uninstall moarvm and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove moarvm

Remove moarvm Configurations and Data

To remove moarvm configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge moarvm

Remove moarvm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge moarvm

Dependencies

moarvm have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install moarvm package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.