How To Install elpa-snakemake on Debian 12

Learn how to install elpa-snakemake on Debian 12 with this tutorial. elpa-snakemake is Run Snakemake workflows from Emacs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-snakemake on Debian 12.

What is elpa-snakemake

elpa-snakemake is:

This package provides a Transient interface for calling Snakemake. The main entry point is the `snakemake’ command, which you should consider giving a global key binding.

There are three methods to install elpa-snakemake on Debian 12. 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-snakemake 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-snakemake using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install elpa-snakemake

Install elpa-snakemake Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install elpa-snakemake

Install elpa-snakemake 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-snakemake using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install elpa-snakemake

How To Uninstall elpa-snakemake on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove elpa-snakemake

Uninstall elpa-snakemake And Its Dependencies

To uninstall elpa-snakemake and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-snakemake

Remove elpa-snakemake Configurations and Data

To remove elpa-snakemake configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-snakemake

Remove elpa-snakemake configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-snakemake

Dependencies

elpa-snakemake have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-snakemake package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.