How To Install elpa-caml on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-caml
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is elpa-caml
elpa-caml is:
Objective Caml (OCaml) is an implementation of the ML language, based on the Caml Light dialect extended with a complete class-based object system and a powerful module system in the style of Standard ML.
This package provides support for editing both Objective Caml and Caml Light programs with Emacs and XEmacs.
Caml-mode supports:
- indentation
- compilation and error retrieving
- interaction with the toplevel
- font-lock
- imenu
There are three methods to install elpa-caml
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-caml 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-caml
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elpa-caml
Install elpa-caml Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-caml
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elpa-caml
Install elpa-caml 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-caml
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elpa-caml
How To Uninstall elpa-caml on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the elpa-caml
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elpa-caml
Uninstall elpa-caml And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elpa-caml
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-caml
Remove elpa-caml Configurations and Data
To remove elpa-caml
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-caml
Remove elpa-caml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elpa-caml
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-caml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-caml
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.