How To Install emacs23-lucid on Debian 10

Learn how to install emacs23-lucid on Debian 10 with this tutorial. emacs23-lucid is GNU Emacs transitional package to emacs-lucid

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs23-lucid on Debian 10.

What is emacs23-lucid

emacs23-lucid is:

GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. This package is a transitional package to ensure that systems with emacs23 installed automatically upgrade to the new unversioned emacs-lucid package.

There are three methods to install emacs23-lucid on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install emacs23-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 emacs23-lucid using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install emacs23-lucid

Install emacs23-lucid Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install emacs23-lucid using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install emacs23-lucid

Install emacs23-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 emacs23-lucid using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install emacs23-lucid

How To Uninstall emacs23-lucid on Debian 10

To uninstall only the emacs23-lucid package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove emacs23-lucid

Uninstall emacs23-lucid And Its Dependencies

To uninstall emacs23-lucid and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove emacs23-lucid

Remove emacs23-lucid Configurations and Data

To remove emacs23-lucid configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge emacs23-lucid

Remove emacs23-lucid configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove emacs23-lucid configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge emacs23-lucid

Dependencies

emacs23-lucid have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs23-lucid package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.