How To Install flim on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flim on Debian 10.
What is flim
flim is:
FLIM (Faithful Library about Internet Message) is a library to provide basic functions about message representation and encoding for emacsen. It consists of following modules:
std11.el STD 11 (RFC 822) parser and utility mime.el to provide various services about MIME-entities mime-def.el Definitions about MIME format mime-parse.el MIME parser mel.el MIME encoder/decoder mel-b-dl.el base64 (B-encoding) encoder/decoder (for Emacs 20 with dynamic loading support) mel-b-ccl.el base64 (B-encoding) encoder/decoder (using CCL) mel-b-en.el base64 (B-encoding) encoder/decoder (for other emacsen) mel-q-ccl.el quoted-printable and Q-encoding encoder/decoder (using CCL) mel-q.el quoted-printable and Q-encoding encoder/decoder mel-u.el unofficial backend for uuencode mel-g.el unofficial backend for gzip64 eword-decode.el encoded-word decoder eword-encode.el encoded-word encoder
There are three methods to install flim 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 flim Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install flim using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install flim
Install flim Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install flim using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install flim
Install flim 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 flim using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install flim
How To Uninstall flim on Debian 10
To uninstall only the flim package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove flim
Uninstall flim And Its Dependencies
To uninstall flim and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove flim
Remove flim Configurations and Data
To remove flim configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge flim
Remove flim configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove flim configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge flim
Dependencies
flim have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flim package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.