How To Install emacs-goodies on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-goodies in Fedora 36. emacs-goodies is Miscellaneous add on for Emacs

Introduction

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

What is `emacs-goodies`

This is Emacs-goodies 41.0 which provides numerous add on for GNU Emacs and Gnus.

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

Install emacs-goodies 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-goodies using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install emacs-goodies

Install emacs-goodies 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-goodies using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install emacs-goodies

How To Uninstall emacs-goodies on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove emacs-goodies

emacs-goodies Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/goodies
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/goodies/emacs-goodies-build.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/goodies/emacs-goodies-custom.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/goodies/emacs-goodies-el.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/goodies/ff-paths.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/goodies/projects.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/emacs-goodies-loaddefs.el
/usr/share/info/emacs-goodies.gz

References

emacs-goodies website

Summary

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