How To Install elpa-lintian on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-lintian
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is elpa-lintian
elpa-lintian is:
This Emacs Lisp module provides a command to run Lintian in Emacs.
The purpose is to provide extra functionality to users above and beyond that available in a text terminal when examining the resulting packaging hints.
There are three methods to install elpa-lintian
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-lintian 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-lintian
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elpa-lintian
Install elpa-lintian Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-lintian
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elpa-lintian
Install elpa-lintian 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-lintian
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elpa-lintian
How To Uninstall elpa-lintian on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the elpa-lintian
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elpa-lintian
Uninstall elpa-lintian And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elpa-lintian
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-lintian
Remove elpa-lintian Configurations and Data
To remove elpa-lintian
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-lintian
Remove elpa-lintian configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elpa-lintian
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-lintian
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-lintian
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.