How To Install hy on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hy on Debian 9.
What is hy
hy is:
Hy is a wonderful dialect of Lisp that’s embedded in Python.
Since Hy transforms its Lisp code into the Python Abstract Syntax Tree, you have the whole beautiful world of Python at your fingertips, in Lisp form!
This package is here for future installability. This is the stable interface to install the `hy’ language.
There are three methods to install hy 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 hy Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hy using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hy
Install hy Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hy using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hy
Install hy 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 hy using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hy
How To Uninstall hy on Debian 9
To uninstall only the hy package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hy
Uninstall hy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hy
Remove hy Configurations and Data
To remove hy configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hy
Remove hy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hy configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hy
Dependencies
hy have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hy package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.