How To Install raku on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install raku on Debian 12.
What is raku
raku is:
Raku (formerly known as Perl6) is a programming language, member of the Perl family. Like Perl 5, her world-famous big sister, Raku intends to carry forward the high ideals of the Perl community and is currently being developed by a team of dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers.
raku package is a metapackage that aims to depend on a Raku compiler and on the Raku core modules shipped with rakudo-star. These modules will be added once they are available on Debian.
Raku version number represents the version of the language specification. The version of the compiler is another matter.
There are three methods to install raku on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install raku Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install raku using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install raku
Install raku Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install raku using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install raku
Install raku 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 raku using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install raku
How To Uninstall raku on Debian 12
To uninstall only the raku package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove raku
Uninstall raku And Its Dependencies
To uninstall raku and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove raku
Remove raku Configurations and Data
To remove raku configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge raku
Remove raku configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove raku configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge raku
Dependencies
raku have the following dependencies:
- prove6
- raku-file-find
- raku-file-which
- raku-getopt-long
- raku-hash-merge
- raku-json-class
- raku-json-fast
- raku-json-marshal
- raku-json-name
- raku-json-optin
- raku-json-unmarshal
- raku-librarycheck
- raku-log
- raku-meta6
- raku-readline
- raku-tap-harness
- raku-test-meta
- raku-uri
- raku-zef
- rakudo
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install raku package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.