How To Install libchicken8 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libchicken8
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libchicken8
libchicken8 is:
CHICKEN is a Scheme compiler which compiles a subset of R5RS into C. It uses the ideas presented in Baker’s paper “Cheney on the MTA”, and has a small core and is easily extendable.
This package contains the shared library needed to run programs using chicken.
There are three methods to install libchicken8
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libchicken8 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libchicken8
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libchicken8
Install libchicken8 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libchicken8
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libchicken8
Install libchicken8 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libchicken8
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libchicken8
How To Uninstall libchicken8 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libchicken8
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libchicken8
Uninstall libchicken8 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libchicken8
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libchicken8
Remove libchicken8 Configurations and Data
To remove libchicken8
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libchicken8
Remove libchicken8 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libchicken8
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libchicken8
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libchicken8
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.