How To Install clisp on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clisp on Kali Linux.
What is clisp
clisp is:
GNU CLISP is a Common Lisp implementation. It conforms to the ANSI Common Lisp standard, and offers many extensions. It runs on all desktop operating systems (GNU and Unix systems, macOS, Windows) and is particularly memory-efficient.
It is Free Software and may be distributed under the terms of GNU GPL, while it is possible to distribute commercial proprietary applications compiled with GNU CLISP.
The user interface comes in English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Russian and Danish, and can be changed during run time.
GNU CLISP includes an interpreter, a compiler, a debugger, CLOS, MOP, a foreign language interface, a socket interface, i18n, fast bignums, arbitrary precision floats and more. An X11 interface is available through CLX, Garnet, CLUE/CLIO. GNU CLISP runs Maxima, ACL2 and many other Common Lisp packages.
This package contains the main CLISP executable, the link-kit, and the following modules: i18n, regexp, syscalls, readline, ASDF, rawsock, bindings/glibc.
There are three methods to install clisp on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install clisp Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install clisp using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install clispInstall clisp Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install clisp using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install clispInstall clisp Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install clisp using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install clispHow To Uninstall clisp on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the clisp package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove clispUninstall clisp And Its Dependencies
To uninstall clisp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove clispRemove clisp Configurations and Data
To remove clisp configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge clispRemove clisp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove clisp configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clispDependencies
clisp have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clisp package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.