How To Install elpa-taxy on Debian 12

Learn how to install elpa-taxy on Debian 12 with this tutorial. elpa-taxy is Emacs programmable taxonomical grouping for arbitrary objects

Introduction

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

What is elpa-taxy

elpa-taxy is:

This Emacs library provides a programmable way to classify arbitrary objects into a hierarchical taxonomy. (That’s a lot of fancy words to say that this lets you put things in nested groups.)

Helpful features include:

  • Dynamic taxonomies: Objects may be classified into hierarchies automatically defined at runtime based on their attributes.

  • Reusable taxonomies: Taxonomy definitions may be stored in variables and reused in other taxonomies’ descendant groups.

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

sudo apt-get -y install elpa-taxy

Install elpa-taxy Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install elpa-taxy

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

sudo aptitude -y install elpa-taxy

How To Uninstall elpa-taxy on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove elpa-taxy

Uninstall elpa-taxy And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-taxy

Remove elpa-taxy Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-taxy

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

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

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

Dependencies

elpa-taxy have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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