How To Install mes on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mes
on Debian 11.
What is mes
mes is:
GNU Mes aims to help create a full source bootstrap as part of the bootstrappable builds effort. It consists of a mutual self-hosting Scheme interpreter written in C and a Nyacc-based C compiler written in Scheme.
Mes and MesCC can compile a lightly patched TinyCC that is self-hosting.
There are three methods to install mes
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mes Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mes
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mes
Install mes Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mes
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mes
Install mes 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 mes
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mes
How To Uninstall mes on Debian 11
To uninstall only the mes
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mes
Uninstall mes And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mes
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mes
Remove mes Configurations and Data
To remove mes
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mes
Remove mes configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mes
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mes
Dependencies
mes have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mes
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.