How To Install xemacs on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xemacs on Fedora 34.
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. xemacs 21.5.34 39.20200331hge2ac728aa576.fc34 x86_64 3.0 M xemacs-21.5.34-39.20200331hge2ac728aa576.fc34.src.rpm fedora Different version of Emacs http GPLv3+ 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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xemacs.
Install xemacs on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34
To uninstall only the xemacs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xemacs
xemacs Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/gnuclient
/usr/bin/gnudoit
/usr/bin/xemacs
/usr/bin/xemacs-21.5-b34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/39
/usr/lib/.build-id/39/384ba6e6b3a8cd537bdfac945c19c668b13422
/usr/lib/.build-id/53
/usr/lib/.build-id/53/d86e466100fdb5ef1401a1146cddcc1265a354
/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
/usr/bin/gnuclient
/usr/bin/gnudoit
/usr/bin/xemacs
/usr/bin/xemacs-21.5-b34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/e6a4e1fc63c3bc73f1c3c7a876c3888504d3f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/96
/usr/lib/.build-id/96/80bf2d056685ffb7325691a9c94e3c13d711e9
/usr/lib/xemacs-21.5-b34/doc
/usr/lib/xemacs-21.5-b34/doc/DOC
/usr/lib/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
- [xemacs website](http://www.xemacs.org/ http://www.xemacs.org/)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xemacs on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
