How To Install acr on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023  (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install acr on Ubuntu.

What is acr

acr is:

ACR is an autoconf like tool that allows you to create configure scripts for your programs. The main aim of this tool is to teach developers how to create portable builds of their tools, just using generic functions wrapped by acr to generate portable shellscript.

Pros:

• Easy to learn / implement.
• Faster/smaller final configure script.
• Own syntax, not complex m4 macros.
• Reverse engineering tool to recover .acr files from the final configure script.
• Good documentation and tutorials.
• vim syntax highlighting for configure.acr files ($PREFIX/share/acr/vim/install.sh)
• Debugging support (-d)
• Integrated support for java, bash, perl, Tcl, c, c++, ruby and Python.
• Recursive configure script calls.
• Progress bar in generation stage.

Cons:

• Not recommended for huge projects
• Slow script generation parsing huge configuration files
• No automake replace. (just type clean makefiles and acr substs)
• Not enough tested (only on free operating systems (Open|Net|Free|Dfly)BSD, GNU systems, and Darwin).

There are three methods to install acr on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install acr Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install acr

Install acr Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install acr

Install acr 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 acr using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install acr

How To Uninstall acr on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove acr

Uninstall acr And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove acr

Remove acr Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge acr

Remove acr configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge acr

Dependencies

acr have the following dependencies:

References

• acr website

Summary

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