How to Install and Uninstall perl6 Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: November 07,2024

1. Install "perl6" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install perl6 on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "perl6" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall perl6 on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                perl6
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the perl6 package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: perl6
Architecture: all
Version: 6.d.3
Priority: optional
Section: universe/interpreters
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Rakudo Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 18
Depends: perl6-readline, perl6-zef, prove6, raku-getopt-long, raku-tap-harness, rakudo (>= 2018.11)
Filename: pool/universe/p/perl6/perl6_6.d.3_all.deb
Size: 5716
MD5sum: a95ad681ef1772aef02b9620ecec8017
SHA1: 35c909887ea133ef2d44801096000671669fd54f
SHA256: 272fb978173afa5188768d9562ba11ca9e7056e7ec48fe3e15f3c0337507366c
SHA512: 3a5d7bb352fa6b8576938e74b6d3c2be3efaf163e00d3613d2c3e0d834a8135a8808841ccb9221339618d260b1c5eb97bfb644eec948887a484b7d5971b8eca3
Homepage: http://raku.org/
Description-en: Raku Compiler
Raku (formerly known as Perl6) is a programming language, member of the
Perl family. Like Perl 5, her world-famous big sister, Raku intends to
carry forward the high ideals of the Perl community and is currently
being developed by a team of dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers.
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perl6 package is a metapackage that aims to depend on a Raku
compiler and on the Raku core modules shipped with rakudo-star.
These modules will be added once they are available on Debian.
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Perl6 version number represents the version of the language specification.
The version of the compiler is another matter.
Description-md5: 0388d9555a557e3641286e605d32f21e