How To Install emacs-common on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-common on CentOS 7.
What is emacs-common
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 contains all the common files needed by emacs or emacs-nox.
We can use yum or dnf to install emacs-common on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install emacs-common.
Install emacs-common on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install emacs-common using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install emacs-common
Install emacs-common 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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install emacs-common using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install emacs-common
How To Uninstall emacs-common on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the emacs-common package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove emacs-common
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-common on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
