How To Install elpa-beacon on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-beacon
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is elpa-beacon
elpa-beacon is:
Whenever the window scrolls a light will shine on top of your cursor so you know where it is.
Customizations:
- the appearance of the beacon;
- the duration;
- when the beacon should blink at all;
- prevent the beacon from blinking only on specific situations;
- push the mark for you whenever point moves a long distance.
There are three methods to install elpa-beacon
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install elpa-beacon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-beacon
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elpa-beacon
Install elpa-beacon Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-beacon
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elpa-beacon
Install elpa-beacon Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-beacon
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elpa-beacon
How To Uninstall elpa-beacon on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the elpa-beacon
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elpa-beacon
Uninstall elpa-beacon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elpa-beacon
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-beacon
Remove elpa-beacon Configurations and Data
To remove elpa-beacon
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-beacon
Remove elpa-beacon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elpa-beacon
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-beacon
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-beacon
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.