How To Install elpa-yasnippet-snippets on Debian 10

Learn how to install elpa-yasnippet-snippets on Debian 10 with this tutorial. elpa-yasnippet-snippets is Andrea Crottis official YASnippet snippets

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-yasnippet-snippets on Debian 10.

What is elpa-yasnippet-snippets

elpa-yasnippet-snippets is:

YASnippet (Yet Another Snippet extension for Emacs) is a template system for Emacs. It allows you to type an abbreviation and automatically expand the abbreviation into function templates.

Templates are included for the following programming languages: C, C++, C#, Clojure, D, Emacs Lisp, Go, Haskell, Java, Javascript, Kotlin, Lua, NASM, Perl, PHP, Python, OCaml, Ruby, Rust, SQL, Sh, and more.

Templates are also included for the following markdown, markup, serialisation, or typesetting languages: CSS, HTML, LaTeX, Org, RST/reST, YAML, and more.

This package contains the official upstream snippets.

There are three methods to install elpa-yasnippet-snippets on Debian 10. 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-yasnippet-snippets 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-yasnippet-snippets using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install elpa-yasnippet-snippets

Install elpa-yasnippet-snippets Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install elpa-yasnippet-snippets

Install elpa-yasnippet-snippets 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-yasnippet-snippets using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install elpa-yasnippet-snippets

How To Uninstall elpa-yasnippet-snippets on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove elpa-yasnippet-snippets

Uninstall elpa-yasnippet-snippets And Its Dependencies

To uninstall elpa-yasnippet-snippets and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-yasnippet-snippets

Remove elpa-yasnippet-snippets Configurations and Data

To remove elpa-yasnippet-snippets configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-yasnippet-snippets

Remove elpa-yasnippet-snippets configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-yasnippet-snippets

Dependencies

elpa-yasnippet-snippets have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-yasnippet-snippets package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.