How To Install yasnippet-snippets on Debian 10

Learn how to install yasnippet-snippets on Debian 10 with this tutorial. yasnippet-snippets is transition package, yasnippet-snippets to elpa-yasnippet-snippets

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install yasnippet-snippets on Debian 10.

What is yasnippet-snippets

yasnippet-snippets is:

The yasnippet-snippets addon has been elpafied. This dummy package helps ease the transition from yasnippet-snippets to elpa-yasnippet-snippets and is safe to remove.

There are three methods to install yasnippet-snippets 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 yasnippet-snippets Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install yasnippet-snippets using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install yasnippet-snippets

Install yasnippet-snippets Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install yasnippet-snippets

Install yasnippet-snippets 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 yasnippet-snippets using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install yasnippet-snippets

How To Uninstall yasnippet-snippets on Debian 10

To uninstall only the yasnippet-snippets package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove yasnippet-snippets

Uninstall yasnippet-snippets And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove yasnippet-snippets

Remove yasnippet-snippets Configurations and Data

To remove yasnippet-snippets configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge yasnippet-snippets

Remove yasnippet-snippets configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge yasnippet-snippets

Dependencies

yasnippet-snippets have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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