How To Install apel on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install apel on Debian 11.
What is apel
apel is:
APEL stands for “A Portable Emacs Library”. It consists of following modules:
poe.el emulation module mainly for basic functions and special forms/macros of latest emacsen poem.el basic functions to write portable MULE programs pces.el portable character encoding scheme (coding-system) features invisible.el features about invisible region mcharset.el MIME charset related features static.el utility for static evaluation broken.el information of broken facilities of Emacs pccl.el utility to write portable CCL program alist.el utility for Association-list calist.el utility for condition tree and condition/situation-alist path-util.el utility for path management or file detection filename.el utility to make file-name install.el utility to install emacs-lisp package mule-caesar.el ROT 13-47-48 Caesar rotation utility emu.el emu bundled in tm-7.106 compatibility pcustom.el portable custom environment product.el functions for product version information
This package provides APEL-LB, a variant of APEL using lexical binding mainly maintained for Wanderlust mail/news reader.
There are three methods to install apel on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install apel Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install apel using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install apel
Install apel Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install apel using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install apel
Install apel 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 apel using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install apel
How To Uninstall apel on Debian 11
To uninstall only the apel package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove apel
Uninstall apel And Its Dependencies
To uninstall apel and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove apel
Remove apel Configurations and Data
To remove apel configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge apel
Remove apel configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove apel configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge apel
Dependencies
apel have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install apel package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.