How To Install elpa-fountain-mode on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-fountain-mode on Debian 10.
What is elpa-fountain-mode
elpa-fountain-mode is:
Fountain Mode is a complete screenwriting environment for GNU Emacs that implements the Fountain markup format. For more information about the Fountain markup format, visit https://fountain.io. Features:
- Traditional TAB writing style for auto-upcasing character names
- Auto-continuation for successively speaking characters
- Displaying approximate page count (current of total) in the mode-line
- Navigation by section, scene, character name, or page
- Optional display of scene numbers in the right margin
- Intelligent insertion of a page breaks
- Both official Fountain 1.1 and legacy (boneyard) syntax
- Three levels of element syntax highlighting
- Styled text: bold, italic, and underlined.
Supports:
- The Fountain 1.1 specification
- Displaying script as a screenplay, stageplay, or a user-defined format
- Exporting to HTML, PDF, LaTeX, Final Draft (FDX), or Fountain markup
- Exporting to a standalone document or snippet
- Including external files with {{ include: FILENAME }}
- Integration with Outline to fold/cycle visibility of sections and scenes
- Integration with Imenu. Imenu provides a table of contents for sections, scene headings, and notes. This is typically displayed as a sidebar.
- Integration with Emacs’ auto-insert hook for title page metadata
There are three methods to install elpa-fountain-mode 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-fountain-mode 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-fountain-mode using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elpa-fountain-mode
Install elpa-fountain-mode Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-fountain-mode using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elpa-fountain-mode
Install elpa-fountain-mode 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-fountain-mode using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elpa-fountain-mode
How To Uninstall elpa-fountain-mode on Debian 10
To uninstall only the elpa-fountain-mode package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elpa-fountain-mode
Uninstall elpa-fountain-mode And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elpa-fountain-mode and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-fountain-mode
Remove elpa-fountain-mode Configurations and Data
To remove elpa-fountain-mode configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-fountain-mode
Remove elpa-fountain-mode configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elpa-fountain-mode configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-fountain-mode
Dependencies
elpa-fountain-mode have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-fountain-mode package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.