How To Install elpa-company on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-company
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is elpa-company
elpa-company is:
Company is a text completion framework for Emacs. The name stands for “complete anything”. It uses pluggable back-ends and front-ends to retrieve and display completion candidates.
There are three methods to install elpa-company
on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-company 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-company
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elpa-company
Install elpa-company Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-company
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elpa-company
Install elpa-company 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-company
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elpa-company
How To Uninstall elpa-company on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the elpa-company
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elpa-company
Uninstall elpa-company And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elpa-company
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-company
Remove elpa-company Configurations and Data
To remove elpa-company
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-company
Remove elpa-company configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elpa-company
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-company
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-company
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.