How To Install slime on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install slime on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is slime
slime is:
SLIME is the Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs.
SLIME extends Emacs with support for interactive programming in Common Lisp. The features are centered around slime-mode, an Emacs minor-mode that complements the standard lisp-mode. While lisp-mode supports editing Lisp source files, slime-mode adds support for interacting with a running Common Lisp process for compilation, debugging, documentation lookup, and so on.
The slime-mode programming environment follows the example of Emacs’s native Emacs Lisp environment. It also includes good ideas from similar systems (such as ILISP) and some new ideas.
SLIME is compatible with the following free Common Lisp implementations: CMUCL, SBCL, CCL, CLISP, ECL, ABCL.
This package contains the Emacs client, that will connect to the Lisp-side server (see package cl-swank).
There are three methods to install slime 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 slime Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install slime using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install slime
Install slime Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install slime using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install slime
Install slime 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 slime using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install slime
How To Uninstall slime on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the slime package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove slime
Uninstall slime And Its Dependencies
To uninstall slime and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove slime
Remove slime Configurations and Data
To remove slime configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge slime
Remove slime configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove slime configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge slime
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install slime package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
