How To Install elpa-git-annex on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-git-annex
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is elpa-git-annex
elpa-git-annex is:
This Emacs addon enhances dired and read-only-mode to be more useful in git-annex repositories.
In dired, long annex symlinks are replaced by the name of the file,
coloured green. There are also keybindings to execute the add
and
edit
git-annex subcommands.
In read-only-mode, C-x C-q will execute git annex edit
, and killing
the buffer will call git annex add && git commit -m Updated
.
There are three methods to install elpa-git-annex
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-git-annex 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-git-annex
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elpa-git-annex
Install elpa-git-annex Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-git-annex
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elpa-git-annex
Install elpa-git-annex 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-git-annex
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elpa-git-annex
How To Uninstall elpa-git-annex on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the elpa-git-annex
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elpa-git-annex
Uninstall elpa-git-annex And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elpa-git-annex
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-git-annex
Remove elpa-git-annex Configurations and Data
To remove elpa-git-annex
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-git-annex
Remove elpa-git-annex configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elpa-git-annex
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-git-annex
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-git-annex
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.