How To Install emacs-nox on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-nox on Rocky Linux 8. emacs-nox is GNU Emacs text editor without X support

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-nox on Rocky Linux 8.

What is emacs-nox

Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless text editor. Emacs contains special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read mail, news, and more without leaving the editor. This package provides an emacs binary with no X windows support for running on a terminal.

We can use yum or dnf to install emacs-nox on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install emacs-nox.

Install emacs-nox on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install emacs-nox using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install emacs-nox

Install emacs-nox on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install emacs-nox using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install emacs-nox

How To Uninstall emacs-nox on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the emacs-nox package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove emacs-nox

emacs-nox Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/emacs
/usr/bin/emacs-26.1-nox
/usr/bin/emacs-nox
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/d63836e12b7964fcf526496766eef4c5665c40

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-nox on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.