How To Install elpa-devscripts on Debian 10

Learn how to install elpa-devscripts on Debian 10 with this tutorial. elpa-devscripts is Emacs wrappers for the commands in devscripts

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-devscripts on Debian 10.

What is elpa-devscripts

elpa-devscripts is:

This package contains: devscripts - wrappers around the debuild, debc and debi commands; pbuilder-log-view - wrappers around viewing pbuilder logs; pbuilder - wrappers around pbuilder

There are three methods to install elpa-devscripts 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 elpa-devscripts 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-devscripts using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install elpa-devscripts

Install elpa-devscripts Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install elpa-devscripts

Install elpa-devscripts 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-devscripts using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install elpa-devscripts

How To Uninstall elpa-devscripts on Debian 10

To uninstall only the elpa-devscripts package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove elpa-devscripts

Uninstall elpa-devscripts And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-devscripts

Remove elpa-devscripts Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-devscripts

Remove elpa-devscripts configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-devscripts

Dependencies

elpa-devscripts have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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