How To Install emacs-blacken on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-blacken in Fedora 36. emacs-blacken is Python Black for Emacs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-blacken on Fedora 36.

What is emacs-blacken

Blacken uses black to format a Python buffer. It can be called explicitly on a certain buffer, but more conveniently, a minor-mode ‘blacken-mode’ is provided that turns on automatically running black on a buffer before saving. To automatically format all Python buffers before saving, add the function blacken-mode to python-mode-hook (add-hook ‘python-mode-hook ‘blacken-mode)

We can use yum or dnf to install emacs-blacken on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install emacs-blacken.

Install emacs-blacken on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install emacs-blacken using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install emacs-blacken

Install emacs-blacken on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install emacs-blacken using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install emacs-blacken

How To Uninstall emacs-blacken on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the emacs-blacken package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove emacs-blacken

emacs-blacken Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/doc/emacs-blacken
/usr/share/doc/emacs-blacken/README.md
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/blacken
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/blacken/blacken.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/blacken/blacken.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/blacken-init.el

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-blacken on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).