How To Install elpa-tabbar on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-tabbar
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is elpa-tabbar
elpa-tabbar is:
This library provides the Tabbar global minor mode which displays a tab bar in the header line of Emacs. Click on a tab to select it. Three buttons are displayed on the left side of the tab bar in this order: “home”, “scroll left”, and “scroll right” buttons. The “home” button is used to change something on the tab bar. The scroll left and scroll right buttons are used to scroll tabs horizontally. Tabs can be grouped to maintain several sets of tabs at the same time. Only one group is displayed on the tab bar, and the “home” button is used to switch between the tab bar groups.
While the mouse is usually the preferred way to work with the tab bar, it is also keyboard-accessible.
There are three methods to install elpa-tabbar
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-tabbar 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-tabbar
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elpa-tabbar
Install elpa-tabbar Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-tabbar
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elpa-tabbar
Install elpa-tabbar 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-tabbar
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elpa-tabbar
How To Uninstall elpa-tabbar on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the elpa-tabbar
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elpa-tabbar
Uninstall elpa-tabbar And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elpa-tabbar
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-tabbar
Remove elpa-tabbar Configurations and Data
To remove elpa-tabbar
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-tabbar
Remove elpa-tabbar configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elpa-tabbar
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-tabbar
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-tabbar
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.