How To Install guile-3.0-libs on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install guile-3.0-libs on Debian 11. guile-3.0-libs is Core Guile libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install guile-3.0-libs on Debian 11.

What is guile-3.0-libs

guile-3.0-libs 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-3.0-libs on Debian 11. 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-3.0-libs 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-3.0-libs using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install guile-3.0-libs

Install guile-3.0-libs Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install guile-3.0-libs using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install guile-3.0-libs

Install guile-3.0-libs 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-3.0-libs using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install guile-3.0-libs

How To Uninstall guile-3.0-libs on Debian 11

To uninstall only the guile-3.0-libs package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove guile-3.0-libs

Uninstall guile-3.0-libs And Its Dependencies

To uninstall guile-3.0-libs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove guile-3.0-libs

Remove guile-3.0-libs Configurations and Data

To remove guile-3.0-libs configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge guile-3.0-libs

Remove guile-3.0-libs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove guile-3.0-libs configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge guile-3.0-libs

Dependencies

guile-3.0-libs have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install guile-3.0-libs package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.