How To Install cl-trivial-garbage on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install cl-trivial-garbage on Ubuntu 20.04. cl-trivial-garbage is portable garbage collector-related APIs for Common Lisp

Introduction

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

What is cl-trivial-garbage

cl-trivial-garbage is:

trivial-garbage provides a portable API to finalizers, weak hash-tables and weak pointers on all major implementations of the Common Lisp programming language.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cl-trivial-garbage

Install cl-trivial-garbage Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cl-trivial-garbage

Install cl-trivial-garbage 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-trivial-garbage using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cl-trivial-garbage

How To Uninstall cl-trivial-garbage on Ubuntu 20.04

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

sudo apt-get remove cl-trivial-garbage

Uninstall cl-trivial-garbage And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cl-trivial-garbage

Remove cl-trivial-garbage Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge cl-trivial-garbage

Remove cl-trivial-garbage configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cl-trivial-garbage

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Summary

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