How To Install elpa-volume on Debian 12

Learn how to install elpa-volume on Debian 12 with this tutorial. elpa-volume is tweak your sound card volume from Emacs

Introduction

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

What is elpa-volume

elpa-volume is:

Simple Emacs library to control sound card volume using Emacs commands.

Mostly useful when implementing media players in Emacs.

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

sudo apt-get -y install elpa-volume

Install elpa-volume Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install elpa-volume

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

sudo aptitude -y install elpa-volume

How To Uninstall elpa-volume on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove elpa-volume

Uninstall elpa-volume And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-volume

Remove elpa-volume Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-volume

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

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

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

Dependencies

elpa-volume have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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