How to Install and Uninstall perl6 Package on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

Last updated: January 24,2025

Deprecated! Installation of this package may no longer be supported.

You can also install and uninstall the perl6 on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Ubuntu system

Kubuntu 22.04 LTS
Lubuntu 22.04 LTS
Xubuntu 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS
Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
Zorin OS 16 / Zorin OS 17
Ubuntu Budgie 22.04

1. Install "perl6" package

Please follow the steps below to install perl6 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall perl6 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish):


    
        
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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 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

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