How To Install elpa-rainbow-identifiers on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-rainbow-identifiers
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is elpa-rainbow-identifiers
elpa-rainbow-identifiers is:
Minor mode providing highlighting of identifiers based on their names. Each identifier gets a color based on a hash of its name.
Default colors try to be reasonable, but they can be changed by changing the corresponding faces.
There are three methods to install elpa-rainbow-identifiers
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-rainbow-identifiers 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-rainbow-identifiers
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elpa-rainbow-identifiers
Install elpa-rainbow-identifiers Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-rainbow-identifiers
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elpa-rainbow-identifiers
Install elpa-rainbow-identifiers 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-rainbow-identifiers
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elpa-rainbow-identifiers
How To Uninstall elpa-rainbow-identifiers on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the elpa-rainbow-identifiers
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elpa-rainbow-identifiers
Uninstall elpa-rainbow-identifiers And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elpa-rainbow-identifiers
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-rainbow-identifiers
Remove elpa-rainbow-identifiers Configurations and Data
To remove elpa-rainbow-identifiers
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-rainbow-identifiers
Remove elpa-rainbow-identifiers configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elpa-rainbow-identifiers
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-rainbow-identifiers
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-rainbow-identifiers
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.