How To Install emacs on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs
on CentOS 7.
What is emacs
Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless text editor. Emacs contains special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read mail, news, and more without leaving the editor. This package provides an emacs binary with support for X windows.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install emacs
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install emacs.
Install emacs on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install emacs
using yum
by running the following command:
Install emacs on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install emacs
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall emacs on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the emacs
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.