How To Install elpa-discover-my-major on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-discover-my-major on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is elpa-discover-my-major
elpa-discover-my-major is:
Discover key bindings and descriptions for commands defined by a buffer’s major and minor modes. The command is inspired by discover.el and also uses the makey library. The output is pretty bare bones and not optimized but it seems to work already quite well for most modes.
There are three methods to install elpa-discover-my-major 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-discover-my-major 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-discover-my-major using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elpa-discover-my-major
Install elpa-discover-my-major Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-discover-my-major using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elpa-discover-my-major
Install elpa-discover-my-major 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-discover-my-major using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elpa-discover-my-major
How To Uninstall elpa-discover-my-major on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the elpa-discover-my-major package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elpa-discover-my-major
Uninstall elpa-discover-my-major And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elpa-discover-my-major and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-discover-my-major
Remove elpa-discover-my-major Configurations and Data
To remove elpa-discover-my-major configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-discover-my-major
Remove elpa-discover-my-major configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elpa-discover-my-major configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-discover-my-major
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-discover-my-major package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.