How To Install gauche-gtk on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gauche-gtk on Debian 9.

What is gauche-gtk

gauche-gtk is:

Gauche-gtk is an extension module of Gauche Scheme implementation. It provides gtk, gtk.gl, and gtk.glgd modules.

There are three methods to install gauche-gtk 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 gauche-gtk Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gauche-gtk using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gauche-gtk

Install gauche-gtk Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gauche-gtk using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gauche-gtk

Install gauche-gtk 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 gauche-gtk using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gauche-gtk

How To Uninstall gauche-gtk on Debian 9

To uninstall only the gauche-gtk package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gauche-gtk

Uninstall gauche-gtk And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gauche-gtk and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gauche-gtk

Remove gauche-gtk Configurations and Data

To remove gauche-gtk configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gauche-gtk

Remove gauche-gtk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gauche-gtk configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gauche-gtk

Dependencies

gauche-gtk have the following dependencies:

• libatk1.0-0
• libc6
• libcairo2
• libfontconfig1
• libfreetype6
• libgauche-0.9-0
• libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
• libgl1-mesa-glx
• libglib2.0-0
• libglu1-mesa
• libgtk2.0-0
• libgtkglext1
• libice6

References

• gauche-gtk website

Summary

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