How To Install elpa-vertico on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-vertico on Debian 12.
What is elpa-vertico
elpa-vertico is:
Vertico provides a performant and minimalistic vertical completion UI for Emacs based on the default completion system. The main focus of Vertico is to provide a UI which behaves correctly under all circumstances. By reusing the built-in facilities system, Vertico achieves full compatibility with built-in Emacs completion commands and completion tables. Vertico only provides the completion UI but aims to be highly flexible, extensible and modular. Additional enhancements are available as extensions or complementary packages. The code base is small and maintainable. The main vertico.el package is only about 600 lines of code without white space and comments.
There are three methods to install elpa-vertico 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-vertico 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-vertico using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elpa-vertico
Install elpa-vertico Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-vertico using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elpa-vertico
Install elpa-vertico 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-vertico using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elpa-vertico
How To Uninstall elpa-vertico on Debian 12
To uninstall only the elpa-vertico package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elpa-vertico
Uninstall elpa-vertico And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elpa-vertico and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-vertico
Remove elpa-vertico Configurations and Data
To remove elpa-vertico configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-vertico
Remove elpa-vertico configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elpa-vertico configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-vertico
Dependencies
elpa-vertico have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-vertico package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
