How To Install chibi-scheme on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install chibi-scheme on Ubuntu 22.04. chibi-scheme is embeddable Scheme interpreter

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install chibi-scheme on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is chibi-scheme

chibi-scheme is:

Chibi-Scheme is a really small embeddable interpreter of R7RS Scheme, intended for use as an extension and scripting language in C programs.

This package provides REPL and interpreter “chibi-scheme” as well as tools for documenting Scheme code (“chibi-doc”), generating FFI bindings (“chibi-ffi”), and managing Scheme packages (“snow-chibi”).

There are three methods to install chibi-scheme 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 chibi-scheme Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install chibi-scheme

Install chibi-scheme Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install chibi-scheme

Install chibi-scheme 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 chibi-scheme using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install chibi-scheme

How To Uninstall chibi-scheme on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the chibi-scheme package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove chibi-scheme

Uninstall chibi-scheme And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove chibi-scheme

Remove chibi-scheme Configurations and Data

To remove chibi-scheme configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge chibi-scheme

Remove chibi-scheme configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge chibi-scheme

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Summary

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