How To Install gnucobol on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnucobol on Debian 10.
What is gnucobol
gnucobol is:
GnuCOBOL (formerly OpenCOBOL) is a free, modern COBOL compiler. GnuCOBOL implements a substantial part of the COBOL 85, COBOL 2002 and COBOL 2014 standards and X/Open COBOL, as well as many extensions included in other COBOL compilers (IBM COBOL, MicroFocus COBOL, ACUCOBOL-GT and others).
GnuCOBOL translates COBOL into C and compiles the translated code using a native C compiler.
Build COBOL programs on various platforms, including GNU/Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. GnuCOBOL has also been built on HP/UX, z/OS, SPARC, RS6000, AS/400, along with other combinations of machines and operating systems.
While being held to a high level of quality and robustness, GnuCOBOL does not claim to be a ??Standard Conforming?? implementation of COBOL.
GnuCOBOL passes over 9600 of the NIST COBOL 85 test suite tests and over 750 internal checks during build.
There are three methods to install gnucobol 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 gnucobol Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnucobol using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnucobol
Install gnucobol Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnucobol using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnucobol
Install gnucobol 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 gnucobol using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnucobol
How To Uninstall gnucobol on Debian 10
To uninstall only the gnucobol package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnucobol
Uninstall gnucobol And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnucobol and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnucobol
Remove gnucobol Configurations and Data
To remove gnucobol configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnucobol
Remove gnucobol configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnucobol configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnucobol
Dependencies
gnucobol have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnucobol package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
