How To Install yasnippet-snippets on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yasnippet-snippets on Debian 9.
What is yasnippet-snippets
yasnippet-snippets is:
YASnippet (yet another snippet extension for Emacs) is a template system for Emacs. It allows you to type an abbreviation and automatically expand the abbreviation into function templates.
Bundled language templates includes: C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, Ruby, SQL, LaTeX, HTML, CSS and more.
This repository contains the official snippets for yasnippet.
There are three methods to install yasnippet-snippets on Debian 9. 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 9
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 9, 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 9 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 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
