How To Install acr on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install acr on Debian 9.
What is acr
acr is:
ACR is an autoconf like tool that allows you to create configure scripts for your programs. The main aim of this tool is to teach developers how to create portable builds of their tools, just using generic functions wrapped by acr to generate portable shellscript.
Pros:
- Easy to learn / implement.
- Faster/smaller final configure script.
- Own syntax, not complex m4 macros.
- Reverse engineering tool to recover .acr files from the final configure script.
- Good documentation and tutorials.
- vim syntax highlighting for configure.acr files ($PREFIX/share/acr/vim/install.sh)
- Debugging support (-d)
- Integrated support for java, bash, perl, Tcl, c, c++, ruby and Python.
- Recursive configure script calls.
- Progress bar in generation stage.
Cons:
- Not recommended for huge projects
- Slow script generation parsing huge configuration files
- No automake replace. (just type clean makefiles and acr substs)
- Not enough tested (only on free operating systems (Open|Net|Free|Dfly)BSD, GNU systems, and Darwin).
There are three methods to install acr 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 acr Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install acr using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install acr
Install acr Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install acr using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install acr
Install acr 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 acr using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install acr
How To Uninstall acr on Debian 9
To uninstall only the acr package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove acr
Uninstall acr And Its Dependencies
To uninstall acr and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove acr
Remove acr Configurations and Data
To remove acr configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge acr
Remove acr configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove acr configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge acr
Dependencies
acr have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install acr package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.