How To Install elpa-projectile on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-projectile
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is elpa-projectile
elpa-projectile is:
This library enhances Emacs with easy project management and navigation. The concept of a project is simple: just a folder containing a special file. Currently git, mercurial, darcs and bazaar repos are considered projects by default. So are lein, maven, sbt, scons, rebar and bundler projects. If you want to mark a folder manually as a project just create an empty .projectile file in it.
Some of Projectile’s features:
- jump to a file in project
- jump to files at point in project
- jump to a directory in project
- jump to a file in a directory
- jump to a project buffer
- jump to a test in project
- toggle between files with same names but different extensions
(e.g.
.h
<->.c/.cpp
,Gemfile
<->Gemfile.lock
) - toggle between code and its test (e.g.
main.service.js
<->main.service.spec.js
) - jump to recently visited files in the project
- switch between projects you have worked on
- kill all project buffers
- replace in project
- multi-occur in project buffers
- grep in project
- regenerate project etags or gtags
- visit project in dired
- run make in a project with a single key chord
There are three methods to install elpa-projectile
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-projectile 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-projectile
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elpa-projectile
Install elpa-projectile Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-projectile
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elpa-projectile
Install elpa-projectile 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-projectile
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elpa-projectile
How To Uninstall elpa-projectile on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the elpa-projectile
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elpa-projectile
Uninstall elpa-projectile And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elpa-projectile
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-projectile
Remove elpa-projectile Configurations and Data
To remove elpa-projectile
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-projectile
Remove elpa-projectile configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elpa-projectile
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-projectile
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-projectile
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.