How To Install emacs-nox on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-nox on CentOS 8.
What is emacs-nox
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 no X windows support for running on a terminal.
We can use yum or dnf to install emacs-nox on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install emacs-nox.
Install emacs-nox 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-nox using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install emacs-nox
Install emacs-nox 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-nox using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install emacs-nox
How To Uninstall emacs-nox on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the emacs-nox package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove emacs-nox
emacs-nox Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/emacs
/usr/bin/emacs-26.1-nox
/usr/bin/emacs-nox
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/3ca4ea45f7ab7d35311edd11c42484806ec56e
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-nox on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.