How To Install elpa-consult on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-consult on Debian 12.
What is elpa-consult
elpa-consult is:
Consult provides practical commands based on the Emacs completion function completing-read. Completion allows you to quickly select an item from a list of candidates. Consult offers in particular an advanced buffer switching command consult-buffer to switch between buffers and recently opened files. Furthermore Consult provides multiple search commands, an asynchronous consult-grep and consult-ripgrep, and the line-based search command consult-line. Some of the Consult commands are enhanced versions of built-in Emacs commands. For example the command consult-imenu presents a flat list of the Imenu with live preview, grouping and narrowing. Please take a look at the full list of commands.
There are three methods to install elpa-consult 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-consult 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-consult using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elpa-consult
Install elpa-consult Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-consult using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elpa-consult
Install elpa-consult 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-consult using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elpa-consult
How To Uninstall elpa-consult on Debian 12
To uninstall only the elpa-consult package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elpa-consult
Uninstall elpa-consult And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elpa-consult and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-consult
Remove elpa-consult Configurations and Data
To remove elpa-consult configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-consult
Remove elpa-consult configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elpa-consult configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-consult
Dependencies
elpa-consult have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-consult package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
