How To Install esix on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install esix on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is esix
esix is:
ESI-X was the first stored program scientific interpreter for the PDP-8. ESI was designed by Dave Waks on 8/3/66 and was vaguely based on RAND’s JOSS. In 1967 Bob Supnik extended the program to support 8KW of memory, and this became the “ESI-extended” or ESI-X FOCAL was eventually the successor of ESI-X.
There are three methods to install esix on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install esix Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install esix using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install esix
Install esix Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install esix using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install esix
Install esix 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 esix using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install esix
How To Uninstall esix on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the esix package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove esix
Uninstall esix And Its Dependencies
To uninstall esix and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove esix
Remove esix Configurations and Data
To remove esix configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge esix
Remove esix configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove esix configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge esix
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install esix package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
