How To Install mhc on Debian 10

Learn how to install mhc on Debian 10 with this tutorial. mhc is schedule management tool for Emacs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mhc on Debian 10.

What is mhc

mhc is:

MHC (Message Harmonized Calendaring system) is a personal schedule management system, that is designed to help those who receive most appointments via email.

MHC has the following features:

  • You can easily import schedule articles from existing buffers.
  • Simple data structure; schedule articles are stored in the same form of MH that allows you to manipulate stored data in many ways.
  • Powerful but simple expression of appointments.

Non Elisp utilities are provided by the mhc-utils package.

There are three methods to install mhc 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 mhc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mhc

Install mhc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mhc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mhc

Install mhc 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 mhc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mhc

How To Uninstall mhc on Debian 10

To uninstall only the mhc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mhc

Uninstall mhc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mhc

Remove mhc Configurations and Data

To remove mhc configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mhc

Remove mhc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mhc

Dependencies

mhc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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