How To Install debian-el on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install debian-el
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is debian-el
debian-el is:
This package contains:
apt-sources - major mode for editing Debian sources.list files; apt-utils - interface to APT (Debian package management); debian-bug - an Emacs command to submit a bug report; deb-view - view contents of Debian package, similarly to tar-mode; gnus-BTS - provides buttons for bug numbers seen in Gnus messages; preseed - major mode for editing debian-installer preseed files.
See /usr/share/doc/debian-el/README.Debian for a short description of all files, or the Info node `debian-el’ for details.
There are three methods to install debian-el
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install debian-el Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install debian-el
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install debian-el
Install debian-el Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install debian-el
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install debian-el
Install debian-el 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install debian-el
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install debian-el
How To Uninstall debian-el on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the debian-el
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove debian-el
Uninstall debian-el And Its Dependencies
To uninstall debian-el
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove debian-el
Remove debian-el Configurations and Data
To remove debian-el
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge debian-el
Remove debian-el configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove debian-el
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge debian-el
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install debian-el
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.