How To Install xemacs on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xemacs on CentOS 8.
What is xemacs
XEmacs is a highly customizable open source text editor and application development system. It is protected under the GNU General Public License and related to other versions of Emacs, in particular GNU Emacs. Its emphasis is on modern graphical user interface support and an open software development model, similar to Linux. This package contains XEmacs built for X Windows with MULE support.
We can use yum or dnf to install xemacs on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xemacs.
Install xemacs 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 xemacs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xemacs
Install xemacs 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 xemacs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xemacs
How To Uninstall xemacs on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the xemacs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xemacs
xemacs Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/gnuclient
/usr/bin/gnudoit
/usr/bin/xemacs
/usr/bin/xemacs-21.5-b34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/13
/usr/lib/.build-id/13/75c9d52a2b5ad9390bbb43780e834fba1eacac
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1/43d62bd99f60c9001ef2cc7e1dc9dcf60d786d
/usr/lib64/xemacs-21.5-b34/doc
/usr/lib64/xemacs-21.5-b34/doc/DOC
/usr/lib64/xemacs-21.5-b34/doc/config.values
/usr/share/appdata/xemacs.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/gnuclient.desktop
/usr/share/applications/xemacs.desktop
/usr/share/doc/xemacs
/usr/share/doc/xemacs/Installation
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/xemacs.png
/usr/share/man/man1/gnuclient.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gnudoit.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xemacs on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.