How To Install elpa-company-lsp on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-company-lsp on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is elpa-company-lsp
elpa-company-lsp is:
It provides features that are not available by using company-capf + lsp-mode:
- Support trigger characters. For example typing . will trigger completion for TypeScript.
- Use completion item’s label as completion labels and replace it with its insertText if available.
- Fetch completion candidates asynchronously
- Apply text edits specified by completion candidates after completion.
- Do not cache the completion candidates if they are incomplete.
- Expand snippets on completion (requires elpa-yasnippet).
There are three methods to install elpa-company-lsp on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install elpa-company-lsp 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-company-lsp using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elpa-company-lsp
Install elpa-company-lsp Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-company-lsp using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elpa-company-lsp
Install elpa-company-lsp 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 elpa-company-lsp using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elpa-company-lsp
How To Uninstall elpa-company-lsp on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the elpa-company-lsp package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elpa-company-lsp
Uninstall elpa-company-lsp And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elpa-company-lsp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-company-lsp
Remove elpa-company-lsp Configurations and Data
To remove elpa-company-lsp configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-company-lsp
Remove elpa-company-lsp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elpa-company-lsp configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-company-lsp
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-company-lsp package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
