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I recently started reading structure and interpretation of a programing language and as such I want to install the mit-scheme interpreter but I realized whenever I installed it, it uninstalled postgres and whenever I installed postgres it uninstalled mit-scheme. My question is how can I install these two packages alongside each other seeing as I use both.

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If that problem is occurring on Ubuntu, most likely it is because you have 32 bit version of mit-scheme.

The problem is with packages libpq5:i386 and libpq5.

postgres depends on the latter and mit-scheme depends on the former package. So as soon as you install postgres, libpq5:i386 is removed to install libpq5. (Both x86 and x64 versions of libpq5 don't go together well, apparently.) And that removes mit-scheme because mit-scheme can no longer run.

So the solution is [Note - This solution is for Ubuntu only]-

  • Install postgres this uninstalls x86 mit-scheme and its dependencies.

  • Download x64 mit-scheme from here x64 mit-scheme.

  • Then run following commands.

sudo apt-get autoremove

sudo apt-get install libmcrypt4 libpq5

sudo dpkg -i /path/to/mit-scheme_9.1.1-5_amd64.deb

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