How To Install elpa-treemacs on Debian 12

Learn how to install elpa-treemacs on Debian 12 with this tutorial. elpa-treemacs is tree layout file explorer for Emacs

Introduction

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

What is elpa-treemacs

elpa-treemacs is:

Treemacs is a file and project explorer similar to NeoTree or vim??s NerdTree, but largely inspired by the Project Explorer in Eclipse. It shows the file system outlines of your projects in a simple tree layout allowing quick navigation and exploration, while also possessing basic file management utilities.

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

sudo apt-get -y install elpa-treemacs

Install elpa-treemacs Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install elpa-treemacs

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

sudo aptitude -y install elpa-treemacs

How To Uninstall elpa-treemacs on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove elpa-treemacs

Uninstall elpa-treemacs And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-treemacs

Remove elpa-treemacs Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-treemacs

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

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

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

Dependencies

elpa-treemacs have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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