How to Install and Uninstall tcl-tclex Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 08,2024

1. Install "tcl-tclex" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install tcl-tclex on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                tcl-tclex
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "tcl-tclex" package

Learn how to uninstall tcl-tclex on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: tcl-tclex
Priority: extra
Section: universe/interpreters
Installed-Size: 199
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Tcl/Tk Packagers
Architecture: amd64
Source: tclex
Version: 1.2a1-16
Replaces: tclex
Provides: tclex
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), tcl (>= 8.5.0-1)
Conflicts: tclex
Filename: pool/universe/t/tclex/tcl-tclex_1.2a1-16_amd64.deb
Size: 51850
MD5sum: c210a2bc626ee7c8bc815c14216dfd38
SHA1: b4f1f0d7494b5a5d18c53be7c973a25c2987b7c6
SHA256: 341bc60a3bf844d44917af96f8497ce8b7e43a8e8d58309e05683bdb5d397b61
Description-en: Lexical analyzer generator for Tcl
tcLex is a lexer (lexical analyzer) generator extension to Tcl. It is
inspired by Unix and GNU lex and flex, which are "tools for
generating programs that perform pattern-matching on text". tcLex is
very similar to these programs, except it uses Tcl philosophy and
syntax, whereas the others use their own syntax and are used in
conjunction with the C language. People used to lex or flex should
then feel familiar with tcLex. tcLex is a small extension (the
Windows compiled version is about 20kb, and the source is about
150kb), because it extensively uses the Tcl library. However, the
current doesn't use Tcl's regexp code anymore but a patched version
is now included in tcLex, which makes it slightly bigger (by a few
KB). tcLex should work with Tcl 8.0 and later. tcLex will NEVER work
with earlier versions, because it uses Tcl 8.0's "object" system for
performance. The most interesting features are:
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* cross-platform support, thanks to Tcl. Though it has been
developed on Windows and tested on Windows and Unix only, it
should work on other platforms as long as Tcl exists on these
platforms. Supported Tcl platforms are Windows 95/NT, Unix (Linux,
Solaris...) and Macintosh. Other platforms are VMS, OS/2,
NeXTStep, Amiga...
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* unlike lex and flex, which only generate static lexers written in
C and intended to be compiled, tcLex dynamically generates Tcl
commands that can be used like other C commands or Tcl procedures
from within Tcl scripts or C programs.
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* it uses Tcl regular expressions. That means you don't have to
learn another regexp language.
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* it works with Tcl namespaces
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* the generated lexer commands can be used in one pass or
incrementally, because they maintain state information. That way,
several instances of the same lexer (eg a HTML parser) can run at
the same time in distinct call frames and maintain distinct states
(local variables...). Lexer need not be specially designed in
order to be used incrementally, the same lexer can transparently
be used in one pass or incrementally. This feature is especially
useful when processing text from a file or an Internet socket (Web
pages for example), when data is not necessarily available at the
beginning of the processing.
Description-md5: 1595342439446f3172d3be55181a741f
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu