How To Install chicken-bin on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install chicken-bin on Kali Linux. chicken-bin is Practical and portable Scheme system - compiler

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install chicken-bin on Kali Linux.

What is chicken-bin

chicken-bin is:

CHICKEN is a Scheme compiler which compiles a subset of R5RS into C. It uses the ideas presented in Baker’s paper “Cheney on the MTA”, and has a small core and is easily extendable.

This package contains the compiler.

There are three methods to install chicken-bin 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 chicken-bin Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install chicken-bin

Install chicken-bin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install chicken-bin

Install chicken-bin 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 chicken-bin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install chicken-bin

How To Uninstall chicken-bin on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the chicken-bin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove chicken-bin

Uninstall chicken-bin And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove chicken-bin

Remove chicken-bin Configurations and Data

To remove chicken-bin configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge chicken-bin

Remove chicken-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge chicken-bin

Dependencies

chicken-bin have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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