How To Install elpa-mailscripts on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-mailscripts on Debian 12.
What is elpa-mailscripts
elpa-mailscripts is:
The original purpose of this package was to make it easy to use the small mail-handling utilities shipped in the ‘mailscripts’ package from within Emacs. It now also contains some additional, thematically-related utilities which don’t invoke any of those scripts.
Entry points you might like to look at if you’re new to this package: mailscripts-prepare-patch, notmuch-slurp-debbug, notmuch-extract-{thread,message}-patches{,-to-project}.
There are three methods to install elpa-mailscripts 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-mailscripts 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-mailscripts using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elpa-mailscripts
Install elpa-mailscripts Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-mailscripts using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elpa-mailscripts
Install elpa-mailscripts 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-mailscripts using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elpa-mailscripts
How To Uninstall elpa-mailscripts on Debian 12
To uninstall only the elpa-mailscripts package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elpa-mailscripts
Uninstall elpa-mailscripts And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elpa-mailscripts and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-mailscripts
Remove elpa-mailscripts Configurations and Data
To remove elpa-mailscripts configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-mailscripts
Remove elpa-mailscripts configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elpa-mailscripts configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-mailscripts
Dependencies
elpa-mailscripts have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-mailscripts package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.