How To Install cl-containers on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install cl-containers on Ubuntu 20.04. cl-containers is Common Lisp containers data structures

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cl-containers on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is cl-containers

cl-containers is:

Common Lisp ships with a set of powerful built in data structures including the venerable list, full featured arrays, and hash-tables. CL-containers enhances and builds on these structures in two ways:

By adding containers that are not available in native Lisp (for example: binary search trees, red-black trees, sparse arrays and so on).

By providing a standard interface so that they are simpler to use and so that changing design decisions becomes significantly easier.

There are three methods to install cl-containers 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-containers 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-containers using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install cl-containers

Install cl-containers Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cl-containers

Install cl-containers 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-containers using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cl-containers

How To Uninstall cl-containers on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the cl-containers package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cl-containers

Uninstall cl-containers And Its Dependencies

To uninstall cl-containers and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cl-containers

Remove cl-containers Configurations and Data

To remove cl-containers configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cl-containers

Remove cl-containers configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cl-containers

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cl-containers package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.