How To Install elpa-suggest on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-suggest
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is elpa-suggest
elpa-suggest is:
This package is an Emacs package for discovering Emacs Lisp functions based on examples. You supply an example input and output, and it makes suggestions. It is a great way of exploring list, string and arithmetic functions.
There are three methods to install elpa-suggest
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-suggest 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-suggest
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elpa-suggest
Install elpa-suggest Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-suggest
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elpa-suggest
Install elpa-suggest 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-suggest
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elpa-suggest
How To Uninstall elpa-suggest on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the elpa-suggest
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elpa-suggest
Uninstall elpa-suggest And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elpa-suggest
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-suggest
Remove elpa-suggest Configurations and Data
To remove elpa-suggest
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-suggest
Remove elpa-suggest configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elpa-suggest
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-suggest
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-suggest
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.