How To Install mdk on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mdk
on Debian 9.
What is mdk
mdk is:
MDK stands for MIX Development Kit, and provides tools for developing and executing, in a MIX virtual machine, MIXAL programs.
The MIX is Donald Knuth’s mythical computer, described in the first volume of The Art of Computer Programming, which is programmed using MIXAL, the MIX assembly language.
MDK includes a MIXAL assembler (mixasm) and a MIX virtual machine (mixvm) with a command line interface. In addition, a GTK+ GUI to mixvm, called gmixvm, and a Guile interpreter with an embedded MIX virtual machine called mixguile, are provided.
Using these interfaces, you can debug your MIXAL programs at source code level, and read/modify the contents of all the components of the MIX computer (including block devices, which are simulated using the file system).
There are three methods to install mdk
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 mdk Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mdk
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mdk
Install mdk Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mdk
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mdk
Install mdk 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 mdk
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mdk
How To Uninstall mdk on Debian 9
To uninstall only the mdk
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mdk
Uninstall mdk And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mdk
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mdk
Remove mdk Configurations and Data
To remove mdk
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mdk
Remove mdk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mdk
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mdk
Dependencies
mdk have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mdk
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.