How To Install guile-2.2 on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install guile-2.2 on Debian 10.
What is guile-2.2
guile-2.2 is:
Guile is a Scheme implementation designed for real world programming, providing a rich Unix interface, a module system, an interpreter, and many extension languages. Guile can be used as a standard #! style interpreter, via #!/usr/bin/guile, or as an extension language for other applications via libguile.
There are three methods to install guile-2.2 on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install guile-2.2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install guile-2.2 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install guile-2.2
Install guile-2.2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install guile-2.2 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install guile-2.2
Install guile-2.2 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 guile-2.2 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install guile-2.2
How To Uninstall guile-2.2 on Debian 10
To uninstall only the guile-2.2 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove guile-2.2
Uninstall guile-2.2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall guile-2.2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove guile-2.2
Remove guile-2.2 Configurations and Data
To remove guile-2.2 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge guile-2.2
Remove guile-2.2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove guile-2.2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge guile-2.2
Dependencies
guile-2.2 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install guile-2.2 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
