How to Install and Uninstall ecl Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 19,2024

1. Install "ecl" package

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


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

Please follow the steps below to uninstall ecl on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: ecl
Priority: optional
Section: universe/devel
Installed-Size: 19115
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Common Lisp Team
Architecture: amd64
Version: 15.3.7+dfsg1-1
Provides: lisp-compiler
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libffi6 (>= 3.0.4), libgc1c2 (>= 1:7.2d), libgmp10, libgmp3-dev, libncurses5-dev, libgc-dev, libatomic-ops-dev, gcc
Suggests: slime, ecl-doc
Filename: pool/universe/e/ecl/ecl_15.3.7+dfsg1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 3084898
MD5sum: 06a80ca63a05020a1a44ed12aa2c89f0
SHA1: 9cedb50772ab891042c2152d8bf7c370d32eb21f
SHA256: 8c49bd0f7275c5953d11bb6d452eb3296aaf08e307b0817a72712c4c5b95f230
Description-en: Embeddable Common-Lisp: has an interpreter and can compile to C
ECL stands for Embeddable Common-Lisp. The ECL project is an
effort to modernize Giuseppe Attardi's ECL environment to
produce an implementation of the Common-Lisp language
which complies to the ANSI X3J13 definition of the language.
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The current ECL implementation features:
* A bytecodes compiler and interpreter.
* A translator to C.
* A UFFI-compatible interface to C code.
* A dynamic loader.
* The possibility to build standalone executables and DLLs.
* The Common-Lisp Object System (CLOS).
* Conditions and restarts for handling errors.
* Sockets as ordinary streams.
* The GNU Multiprecision library for fast bignum operations.
* A simple conservative mark & sweep garbage collector.
* The Boehm-Weiser garbage collector.
Description-md5: 8146a3c1932f3cd206981e116a32bbf7
Homepage: http://ecls.sourceforge.net/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu