How To Install elpa-git-modes on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-git-modes
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is elpa-git-modes
elpa-git-modes is:
This package provides several major modes for editing Git configuration files. The modes are:
- gitattributes-mode
- gitconfig-mode
- gitignore-mode
Each mode is defined in its own library by the same name. Loading `git-modes’ causes all three libraries to be loaded, but you could also load the libraries individually.
There are three methods to install elpa-git-modes
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-modes 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-modes
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elpa-git-modes
Install elpa-git-modes Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-git-modes
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elpa-git-modes
Install elpa-git-modes 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-modes
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elpa-git-modes
How To Uninstall elpa-git-modes on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the elpa-git-modes
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elpa-git-modes
Uninstall elpa-git-modes And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elpa-git-modes
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-modes
Remove elpa-git-modes Configurations and Data
To remove elpa-git-modes
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-git-modes
Remove elpa-git-modes configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elpa-git-modes
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-git-modes
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-git-modes
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.