How To Install emacs24-nox on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs24-nox on Debian 9.
What is emacs24-nox
emacs24-nox is:
GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. This package contains a version of Emacs compiled without support for X, and provides only a text terminal interface.
There are three methods to install emacs24-nox on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install emacs24-nox Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install emacs24-nox using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install emacs24-nox
Install emacs24-nox Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install emacs24-nox using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install emacs24-nox
Install emacs24-nox 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install emacs24-nox using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install emacs24-nox
How To Uninstall emacs24-nox on Debian 9
To uninstall only the emacs24-nox package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove emacs24-nox
Uninstall emacs24-nox And Its Dependencies
To uninstall emacs24-nox and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove emacs24-nox
Remove emacs24-nox Configurations and Data
To remove emacs24-nox configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge emacs24-nox
Remove emacs24-nox configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove emacs24-nox configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge emacs24-nox
Dependencies
emacs24-nox have the following dependencies:
- emacs24-bin-common
- libacl1
- libasound2
- libc6
- libdbus-1-3
- libglib2.0-0
- libgpm2
- libselinux1
- libtinfo5
- libxml2
- zlib1g
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs24-nox package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
