Obtain libraries

Here is a list of projects/libraries/tools intended to install libraries easily.

Versioned releases

Quicklisp is a library installer and repository that features a huge number of Free Software and other open source CL libraries. It is the de-facto standard way of obtaining libraries.
ASDF-Install was around before Quicklisp came along.
Lispy aimed to do what Quicklisp did, but never became popular.
LibCL aims to be a single-install bundle of libraries.

Scripts to install libraries from version control repositories

clbuild, a shell script helping with the download, compilation, and invocation of Common Lisp applications.
slurp (SBCL only)
repo-install
CL-Librarian

Decentralized

Linux package managers

This page is linked from: desire development Getting Started

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