How To Install nickle 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 nickle on Ubuntu.
What is nickle
nickle is:
Nickle is a language with powerful programming and scripting capabilities. Nickle supports a variety of datatypes, especially arbitrary precision integers, rationals, and imprecise reals. The input language vaguely resembles C. Some things in C which do not translate easily are different, some design choices have been made differently, and a very few features are simply missing.
There are three methods to install nickle 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 nickle Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nickle using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nickle
Install nickle Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nickle using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nickle
Install nickle 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 nickle using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nickle
How To Uninstall nickle on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the nickle package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nickle
Uninstall nickle And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nickle and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nickle
Remove nickle Configurations and Data
To remove nickle configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nickle
Remove nickle configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nickle configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nickle
Dependencies
nickle have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nickle package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.