How To Install intercal on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install intercal on Ubuntu 22.04. intercal is INTERCAL de-obfuscator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install intercal on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is intercal

intercal is:

This package is an implementation of the language INTERCAL, legendary for its perversity and horribleness, designed by Don Woods and James Lyon, who have since spent more than twenty years trying to live it down. This version adds COME FROM for extra flavor, and supports multithreading. Comes with language manual and examples including possibly the entire extant body of INTERCAL code.

This INTERCAL implementation works by compiling INTERCAL to C (thus de-obfuscating it), and then uses a C compiler to produce binaries (which are themselves possibly easier to read than the original intercal “source” code).

There are three methods to install intercal 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 intercal Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install intercal using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install intercal

Install intercal Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install intercal using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install intercal

Install intercal 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 intercal using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install intercal

How To Uninstall intercal on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the intercal package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove intercal

Uninstall intercal And Its Dependencies

To uninstall intercal and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove intercal

Remove intercal Configurations and Data

To remove intercal configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge intercal

Remove intercal configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove intercal configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge intercal

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install intercal package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.