How To Install emacs on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs on CentOS 8.
What is emacs
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.
We can use yum or dnf to install emacs on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install emacs.
Install emacs on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install emacs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install emacs
Install emacs on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install emacs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install emacs
How To Uninstall emacs on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the emacs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove emacs
emacs Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/emacs
/usr/bin/emacs-26.1
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8/d9cbf5e4f43a84065546ced2fd32a51580ce28
/usr/share/appdata/emacs.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/emacs.desktop
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/emacs.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/emacs.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/emacs.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/emacs.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/emacs.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/emacs.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/mimetypes/emacs-document.svg
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.