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

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-terminal.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. emacs-terminal.noarch is A desktop menu item for GNU Emacs terminal.

Introduction

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

What is emacs-terminal.noarch

Contains a desktop menu item running GNU Emacs terminal. Install emacs-terminal if you need a terminal with Malayalam support. Please note that emacs-terminal is a temporary package and it will be removed when another terminal becomes capable of handling Malayalam.

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

Install emacs-terminal.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-terminal.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install emacs-terminal.noarch

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

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

sudo yum remove emacs-terminal.noarch

emacs-terminal.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/emacs-terminal
/usr/share/applications/emacs-terminal.desktop

References

Summary

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