[cl-ppcre-devel] How to use it after installation?

[Peter Seibel]

For lisp libraries you should strongly prefer quicklisp to
asdf-install and probably to the Debian packages. If you have troubles
with that you can probably get some help from #quicklisp on
irc.freenode.net.

-Peter

On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Robert Uhl <eadmund42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 徐迪 <xudifsd at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi, there , excuse me for asking this stupid question, but I'm fresh
>> to common-lisp.
>> I knew from http://weitz.de/cl-ppcre/#install that debian can install
>> cl-ppcre from native package, so I use "apt-get install cl-ppcre" to
>> install, and there are no problem during installation, but i don't
>> know how to use it at all, should i just require from REPL? But it get
>> a error.
>
> What error are you getting?
>
>> Maybe i just don't know how to use library in lisp, and i'm using
>> clisp.
>
> Once you have a library installed, it should be this easy:
>
>  cl-user> (require :cl-ppcre)
>
> If that's generating an error, it's possible that the Debian package has
> problems.  You could try using ASDF-INSTALL to install it:
>
>  cl-user> (require :asdf-install)
>  cl-user> (asdf-install:install :cl-ppcre)
>
> Or you could try using Quicklisp:
>
>  $ wget http://beta.quicklisp.org/quicklisp.lisp
>  $ clisp
>  cluser> (load "quicklisp.lisp")
>  cluser> (ql:quickload :cl-ppcre)
>
> --
> Robert A. Uhl
>
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