How To Install chezscheme 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 chezscheme on Ubuntu.
What is chezscheme
chezscheme is:
Chez Scheme is both a programming language and an implementation of that language, with supporting tools and documentation.
As a superset of the language described in the Revised^6 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme (R6RS), Chez Scheme supports all standard features of Scheme, including first-class procedures, proper treatment of tail calls, continuations, user-defined records, libraries, exceptions, and hygienic macro expansion.
Chez Scheme also includes extensive support for interfacing with C and other languages, support for multiple threads possibly running on multiple cores, non-blocking I/O, and many other features.
There are three methods to install chezscheme 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 chezscheme Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install chezscheme using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install chezscheme
Install chezscheme Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install chezscheme using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install chezscheme
Install chezscheme 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 chezscheme using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install chezscheme
How To Uninstall chezscheme on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the chezscheme package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove chezscheme
Uninstall chezscheme And Its Dependencies
To uninstall chezscheme and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove chezscheme
Remove chezscheme Configurations and Data
To remove chezscheme configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge chezscheme
Remove chezscheme configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove chezscheme configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge chezscheme
Dependencies
chezscheme have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install chezscheme package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.