How To Install elpa-notmuch on Debian 12

Learn how to install elpa-notmuch on Debian 12 with this tutorial. elpa-notmuch is thread-based email index, search and tagging (emacs interface)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-notmuch on Debian 12.

What is elpa-notmuch

elpa-notmuch is:

Notmuch is a system for indexing, searching, reading, and tagging large collections of email messages in maildir or mh format. It uses the Xapian library to provide fast, full-text search with a very convenient search syntax.

This package provides an emacs based mail user agent based on notmuch.

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

sudo apt-get -y install elpa-notmuch

Install elpa-notmuch Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install elpa-notmuch

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

sudo aptitude -y install elpa-notmuch

How To Uninstall elpa-notmuch on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove elpa-notmuch

Uninstall elpa-notmuch And Its Dependencies

To uninstall elpa-notmuch and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-notmuch

Remove elpa-notmuch Configurations and Data

To remove elpa-notmuch configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-notmuch

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

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

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

Dependencies

elpa-notmuch have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-notmuch package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.