How To Install gauche on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
2 minutes • 370 words
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gauche on Ubuntu.
What is gauche
gauche is:
Gauche is a Scheme implementation developed to be a handy script interpreter, which allows programmers and system administrators to write small to large scripts for their daily chores. Quick startup, built-in system interface, native multilingual support are some of the author’s goals.
There are three methods to install gauche 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 gauche Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gauche using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gauche
Install gauche Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gauche using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gauche
Install gauche 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 gauche using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gauche
How To Uninstall gauche on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the gauche package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gauche
Uninstall gauche And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gauche and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gauche
Remove gauche Configurations and Data
To remove gauche configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gauche
Remove gauche configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gauche configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gauche
Dependencies
gauche have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gauche package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.