How To Install elpa-buttercup on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-buttercup on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is elpa-buttercup
elpa-buttercup is:
Buttercup is a behavior-driven development framework for testing Emacs Lisp code. It allows the programmer to group related tests so they can share common set-up and tear-down code, and it allows the programmer to spy on functions to ensure they are called with the right arguments during testing.
The testing framework is inspired by the Jasmine JavaScript test framework.
There are three methods to install elpa-buttercup 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-buttercup 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-buttercup using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elpa-buttercup
Install elpa-buttercup Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-buttercup using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elpa-buttercup
Install elpa-buttercup 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-buttercup using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elpa-buttercup
How To Uninstall elpa-buttercup on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the elpa-buttercup package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elpa-buttercup
Uninstall elpa-buttercup And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elpa-buttercup and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-buttercup
Remove elpa-buttercup Configurations and Data
To remove elpa-buttercup configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-buttercup
Remove elpa-buttercup configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elpa-buttercup configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-buttercup
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-buttercup package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.