How To Install elpa-websocket on Debian 12

Learn how to install elpa-websocket on Debian 12 with this tutorial. elpa-websocket is Emacs WebSocket client and server

Introduction

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

What is elpa-websocket

elpa-websocket is:

Emacs Websocket is an elisp library that allows websocket clients to talk to websocket servers, and websocket servers to accept connections from websocket clients. This library is designed to be used by other library writers, to write apps that use websockets, and is not useful by itself.

Emacs IPython Notebook, Emacs Realtime Markdown Viewer, Kite, Markdown-preview-mode, and Atomic Chrome for Emacs use this library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install elpa-websocket

Install elpa-websocket Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install elpa-websocket

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

sudo aptitude -y install elpa-websocket

How To Uninstall elpa-websocket on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove elpa-websocket

Uninstall elpa-websocket And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-websocket

Remove elpa-websocket Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-websocket

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

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

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

Dependencies

elpa-websocket have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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