How to Install and Uninstall cl-cffi Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 14,2024

1. Install "cl-cffi" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install cl-cffi on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                cl-cffi
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "cl-cffi" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall cl-cffi on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                cl-cffi
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the cl-cffi package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: cl-cffi
Priority: optional
Section: universe/devel
Installed-Size: 4490
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Common Lisp Team
Architecture: all
Source: cffi
Version: 1:0.16.1-1
Depends: cl-alexandria, cl-trivial-features, cl-babel
Filename: pool/universe/c/cffi/cl-cffi_0.16.1-1_all.deb
Size: 1734124
MD5sum: b68317da8fd0c67167d5ca8261cdc729
SHA1: 2b4df008f4fd632abb85d246332c96999908c4bd
SHA256: 854525291bd560615503ba270c4d446f3cab29094808dcd5dad2fc9e22f31b46
Description-en: The Common Foreign Function Interface for Common Lisp
CFFI, the Common Foreign Function Interface, purports to be a portable foreign
function interface for Common Lisp. The CFFI library is composed of a
Lisp-implementation-specific backend in the CFFI-SYS package, and a portable
frontend in the CFFI package.
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The CFFI-SYS backend package defines a low-level interface to the native FFI
support in the Lisp implementation. It offers operators for allocating and
dereferencing foreign memory, calling foreign functions, and loading shared
libraries. The CFFI frontend provides a declarative interface for defining
foreign functions, structures, typedefs, enumerated types. It is implemented
in portable ANSI CL making use of the low-level operators exported by
CFFI-SYS.
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A UFFI compatibility layer is also being developed.
Description-md5: 70292f14cb8755bade2653db3f8ad652
Homepage: http://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu