How To Install gnucobol3 on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnucobol3 on Debian 12.
What is gnucobol3
gnucobol3 is:
GnuCOBOL (formerly OpenCOBOL) is a free, modern COBOL compiler. GnuCOBOL implements a substantial part of the COBOL 85, COBOL 2002 and COBOL 2014 standards and X/Open COBOL, as well as many extensions included in other COBOL compilers (IBM COBOL, MicroFocus COBOL, ACUCOBOL-GT and others).
GnuCOBOL translates COBOL into C and compiles the translated code using a native C compiler.
Build COBOL programs on various platforms, including GNU/Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. GnuCOBOL has also been built on HP/UX, z/OS, SPARC, RS6000, AS/400, along with other combinations of machines and operating systems.
While being held to a high level of quality and robustness, GnuCOBOL does not claim to be a ??Standard Conforming?? implementation of COBOL.
GnuCOBOL passes over 9600 of the NIST COBOL 85 test suite tests and over 750 internal checks during build.
There are three methods to install gnucobol3 on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gnucobol3 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnucobol3 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnucobol3
Install gnucobol3 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnucobol3 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnucobol3
Install gnucobol3 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 gnucobol3 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnucobol3
How To Uninstall gnucobol3 on Debian 12
To uninstall only the gnucobol3 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnucobol3
Uninstall gnucobol3 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnucobol3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnucobol3
Remove gnucobol3 Configurations and Data
To remove gnucobol3 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnucobol3
Remove gnucobol3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnucobol3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnucobol3
Dependencies
gnucobol3 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnucobol3 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
