How To Install elpa-magit-popup on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-magit-popup
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is elpa-magit-popup
elpa-magit-popup is:
This package implements a generic interface for toggling switches and setting options and then invoking an Emacs command which does something with these arguments. The prototypical use is for the command to call an external process, passing on the arguments as command line arguments. But this is only one of many possible uses (though the one this library is optimized for).
This package has been superseded by Transient. No new features will be added but bugs will be fixes.
There are three methods to install elpa-magit-popup
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-magit-popup 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-magit-popup
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elpa-magit-popup
Install elpa-magit-popup Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-magit-popup
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elpa-magit-popup
Install elpa-magit-popup 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-magit-popup
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elpa-magit-popup
How To Uninstall elpa-magit-popup on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the elpa-magit-popup
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elpa-magit-popup
Uninstall elpa-magit-popup And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elpa-magit-popup
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-magit-popup
Remove elpa-magit-popup Configurations and Data
To remove elpa-magit-popup
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-magit-popup
Remove elpa-magit-popup configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elpa-magit-popup
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-magit-popup
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-magit-popup
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.