How To Install cl-babel on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cl-babel on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is cl-babel
cl-babel is:
Written completely in Common Lisp, not using a foreign library.
It strives to achieve decent performance. Most of the encoding/decoding algorithms have been adapted from Clozure CL’s source.
Another important goal is reusability. Similarly to SBCL, it defines an interface wherein the algorithms can be reused between a variety of data types so long we’re dealing with conversions between octets and unicode code points.
Babel comes with converters between strings and octet vectors but can be easily extended to deal with, e.g., strings and foreign memory, vectors and Closure’s runes, etc…
There are three methods to install cl-babel 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 cl-babel Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cl-babel using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cl-babel
Install cl-babel Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cl-babel using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cl-babel
Install cl-babel 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 cl-babel using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cl-babel
How To Uninstall cl-babel on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the cl-babel package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cl-babel
Uninstall cl-babel And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cl-babel and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cl-babel
Remove cl-babel Configurations and Data
To remove cl-babel configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cl-babel
Remove cl-babel configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cl-babel configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cl-babel
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cl-babel package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
