How To Install cl-ppcre-unicode on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install cl-ppcre-unicode on Ubuntu 22.04. cl-ppcre-unicode is Portable Perl-compatible regular expressions for Common Lisp (Unicode)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cl-ppcre-unicode on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is cl-ppcre-unicode

cl-ppcre-unicode 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.

This package adds support for Unicode properties to cl-ppcre.

There are three methods to install cl-ppcre-unicode on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-ppcre-unicode 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-unicode using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install cl-ppcre-unicode

Install cl-ppcre-unicode Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cl-ppcre-unicode

Install cl-ppcre-unicode 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-ppcre-unicode using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cl-ppcre-unicode

How To Uninstall cl-ppcre-unicode on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove cl-ppcre-unicode

Uninstall cl-ppcre-unicode And Its Dependencies

To uninstall cl-ppcre-unicode and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cl-ppcre-unicode

Remove cl-ppcre-unicode Configurations and Data

To remove cl-ppcre-unicode configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cl-ppcre-unicode

Remove cl-ppcre-unicode configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cl-ppcre-unicode

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cl-ppcre-unicode package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.