How To Install emacs-lucid on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-lucid
on Debian 11.
What is emacs-lucid
emacs-lucid is:
GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. This package contains a version of Emacs with support for a graphical user interface based on the Lucid toolkit (instead of the GTK+ interface provided by the emacs-gtk package). Until some known GTK+ problems are fixed, this version may help avoid crashing Emacs during an emacsclient disconnect. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567934 and https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715 for more information.
There are three methods to install emacs-lucid
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install emacs-lucid Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install emacs-lucid
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install emacs-lucid
Install emacs-lucid Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install emacs-lucid
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install emacs-lucid
Install emacs-lucid 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install emacs-lucid
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install emacs-lucid
How To Uninstall emacs-lucid on Debian 11
To uninstall only the emacs-lucid
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove emacs-lucid
Uninstall emacs-lucid And Its Dependencies
To uninstall emacs-lucid
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove emacs-lucid
Remove emacs-lucid Configurations and Data
To remove emacs-lucid
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge emacs-lucid
Remove emacs-lucid configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove emacs-lucid
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge emacs-lucid
Dependencies
emacs-lucid have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-lucid
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.