How To Install elpa-dumb-jump on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-dumb-jump
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is elpa-dumb-jump
elpa-dumb-jump is:
This package provides an Emacs “jump to definition” package with support for multiple programming languages that favors “just working” over speed or accuracy. This means minimal – and ideally zero – configuration with absolutely no stored indexes (TAGS) or persistent background processes.
Dumb Jump performs best with The Silver Searcher ag
or ripgrep
rg
.
There are three methods to install elpa-dumb-jump
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-dumb-jump 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-dumb-jump
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elpa-dumb-jump
Install elpa-dumb-jump Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-dumb-jump
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elpa-dumb-jump
Install elpa-dumb-jump 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-dumb-jump
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elpa-dumb-jump
How To Uninstall elpa-dumb-jump on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the elpa-dumb-jump
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elpa-dumb-jump
Uninstall elpa-dumb-jump And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elpa-dumb-jump
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-dumb-jump
Remove elpa-dumb-jump Configurations and Data
To remove elpa-dumb-jump
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-dumb-jump
Remove elpa-dumb-jump configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elpa-dumb-jump
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-dumb-jump
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-dumb-jump
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.