How To Install cl-ppcre on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cl-ppcre
on Debian 10.
What is cl-ppcre
cl-ppcre is:
CL-PPCRE is a portable regular expression library for Common Lisp which has the following features:
- It is compatible with Perl.
- It is pretty fast.
- It is portable between ANSI-compliant Common Lisp implementations.
- It is thread-safe.
- In addition to specifying regular expressions as strings like in Perl you can also use S-expressions.
There are three methods to install cl-ppcre
on Debian 10. 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-ppcre 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-ppcre
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cl-ppcre
Install cl-ppcre Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cl-ppcre
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cl-ppcre
Install cl-ppcre 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 cl-ppcre
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cl-ppcre
How To Uninstall cl-ppcre on Debian 10
To uninstall only the cl-ppcre
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cl-ppcre
Uninstall cl-ppcre And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cl-ppcre
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cl-ppcre
Remove cl-ppcre Configurations and Data
To remove cl-ppcre
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cl-ppcre
Remove cl-ppcre configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cl-ppcre
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cl-ppcre
Dependencies
cl-ppcre have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cl-ppcre
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.