How To Install cl-ppcre on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cl-ppcre on Debian 9.

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 fast.
• It is portable.

There are three methods to install cl-ppcre 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 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 9

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 9, 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 9 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

• cl-ppcre website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cl-ppcre package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.