How To Install elpa-pdf-tools on Debian 10

Learn how to install elpa-pdf-tools on Debian 10 with this tutorial. elpa-pdf-tools is Display and interact with pdf in Emacs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-pdf-tools on Debian 10.

What is elpa-pdf-tools

elpa-pdf-tools is:

This mode replace DocView for PDF files. The key difference is, that pages are created on-demand and stored in memory.

One can also get all kinds of information about a document, add annotation, copy and paste, follow link…

With synctex one can also get to the tex source of a part of a document.

There are three methods to install elpa-pdf-tools on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install elpa-pdf-tools Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install elpa-pdf-tools using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install elpa-pdf-tools

Install elpa-pdf-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install elpa-pdf-tools using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install elpa-pdf-tools

Install elpa-pdf-tools Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install elpa-pdf-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install elpa-pdf-tools

How To Uninstall elpa-pdf-tools on Debian 10

To uninstall only the elpa-pdf-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove elpa-pdf-tools

Uninstall elpa-pdf-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall elpa-pdf-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-pdf-tools

Remove elpa-pdf-tools Configurations and Data

To remove elpa-pdf-tools configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-pdf-tools

Remove elpa-pdf-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove elpa-pdf-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-pdf-tools

Dependencies

elpa-pdf-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-pdf-tools package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.