How To Install moarvm 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 moarvm on Ubuntu.
What is moarvm
moarvm is:
Short for “Metamodel On A Runtime”, MoarVM is a modern virtual machine built for the Rakudo Raku (formerly Perl 6) compiler and the NQP Compiler Toolchain. MoarVM is used by the majority of Raku programmers.
Highlights include:
- Great Unicode support, with strings represented at grapheme level
- Dynamic analysis of running code to identify hot functions and loops, and perform a range of optimizations, including type specialization and inlining
- Support for threads, a range of concurrency control constructs, and asynchronous sockets, timers, processes, and more
- Generational, parallel, garbage collection
- Support for numerous language features, including first class functions, exceptions, continuations, runtime loading of code, big integers and interfacing with native libraries
There are three methods to install moarvm 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 moarvm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install moarvm using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install moarvm
Install moarvm Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install moarvm using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install moarvm
Install moarvm 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 moarvm using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install moarvm
How To Uninstall moarvm on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the moarvm package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove moarvm
Uninstall moarvm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall moarvm and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove moarvm
Remove moarvm Configurations and Data
To remove moarvm configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge moarvm
Remove moarvm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove moarvm configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge moarvm
Dependencies
moarvm have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install moarvm package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.