How To Install emacs-gnuplot.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-gnuplot.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. emacs-gnuplot.noarch is Emacs bindings for the gnuplot main application

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-gnuplot.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `emacs-gnuplot.noarch`

The gnuplot-emacs package contains the emacs related .elc files so that gnuplot nicely interacts and integrates into emacs.

We can use yum to install emacs-gnuplot.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install emacs-gnuplot.noarch.

Install emacs-gnuplot.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install emacs-gnuplot.noarch

How To Uninstall emacs-gnuplot.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the emacs-gnuplot.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove emacs-gnuplot.noarch

emacs-gnuplot.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/emacs-gnuplot-4.6.2
/usr/share/doc/emacs-gnuplot-4.6.2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/emacs-gnuplot-4.6.2/Copyright
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnuplot
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnuplot-eldoc.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnuplot/gnuplot-gui.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnuplot/gnuplot.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/gnuplot-init.el

References

emacs-gnuplot.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-gnuplot.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.