How to Install and Uninstall elpa-helpful Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 24,2025

You can also install and uninstall the elpa-helpful on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

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1. Install "elpa-helpful" package

Learn how to install elpa-helpful on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                elpa-helpful
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "elpa-helpful" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall elpa-helpful on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the elpa-helpful package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: elpa-helpful
Source: helpful-el
Version: 0.19-2
Installed-Size: 136
Maintainer: Debian Emacsen team
Architecture: all
Depends: elpa-dash (>= 2.18.0), elpa-s (>= 1.11.0), elpa-f (>= 0.20.0), elpa-elisp-refs (>= 1.2), dh-elpa-helper, emacsen-common
Recommends: emacs (>= 46.0)
Enhances: emacs
Description: better *help* buffer
Description-md5: 6e5b925b8ffddad8d84ce8fb7394b8e0
Homepage: https://github.com/Wilfred/helpful
Section: lisp
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/h/helpful-el/elpa-helpful_0.19-2_all.deb
Size: 32416
MD5sum: 5221728511e8483026fc7ccbb3f563f9
SHA256: b5a9a03a0021d0dd085919a808c327178297bb1fd6c526fc955549aa31c4772c