How To Install emacs-lucid.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-lucid.x86_64
on Amazon Linux 2.
What is emacs-lucid.x86_64
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 support for X windows using LUCID toolkit.
We can use yum
to install emacs-lucid.x86_64
on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install emacs-lucid.x86_64.
Install emacs-lucid.x86_64 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-lucid.x86_64
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install emacs-lucid.x86_64
How To Uninstall emacs-lucid.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the emacs-lucid.x86_64
package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove emacs-lucid.x86_64
emacs-lucid.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/bin/emacs
/usr/bin/emacs-27.2-lucid
/usr/bin/emacs-27.2-lucid.pdmp
/usr/bin/emacs-lucid
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-lucid.x86_64
on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.