How To Install cl-alexandria on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cl-alexandria
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is cl-alexandria
cl-alexandria is:
Alexandria is a collection of utilities in the public domain for Common Lisp.
It is a library but also a project that aims to reduce duplication of effort and improve portability of Common Lisp code according to its own idiosyncratic and rather conservative aesthetic.
It is used by other projects as a base to build on.
There are three methods to install cl-alexandria
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install cl-alexandria Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cl-alexandria
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cl-alexandria
Install cl-alexandria Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cl-alexandria
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cl-alexandria
Install cl-alexandria 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install cl-alexandria
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cl-alexandria
How To Uninstall cl-alexandria on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the cl-alexandria
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cl-alexandria
Uninstall cl-alexandria And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cl-alexandria
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cl-alexandria
Remove cl-alexandria Configurations and Data
To remove cl-alexandria
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cl-alexandria
Remove cl-alexandria configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cl-alexandria
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cl-alexandria
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cl-alexandria
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.