How To Install chezscheme on Debian 10

Learn how to install chezscheme on Debian 10 with this tutorial. chezscheme is Reliable, high performance Scheme compiler

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install chezscheme on Debian 10.

What is chezscheme

chezscheme is:

Chez Scheme is both a programming language and an implementation of that language, with supporting tools and documentation.

As a superset of the language described in the Revised^6 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme (R6RS), Chez Scheme supports all standard features of Scheme, including first-class procedures, proper treatment of tail calls, continuations, user-defined records, libraries, exceptions, and hygienic macro expansion.

Chez Scheme also includes extensive support for interfacing with C and other languages, support for multiple threads possibly running on multiple cores, non-blocking I/O, and many other features.

This package depends on the latest Chez Scheme version.

There are three methods to install chezscheme 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 chezscheme Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install chezscheme

Install chezscheme Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install chezscheme

Install chezscheme 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 chezscheme using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install chezscheme

How To Uninstall chezscheme on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove chezscheme

Uninstall chezscheme And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove chezscheme

Remove chezscheme Configurations and Data

To remove chezscheme configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge chezscheme

Remove chezscheme configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge chezscheme

Dependencies

chezscheme have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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