How To Install emacs24-lucid on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs24-lucid on Debian 9. emacs24-lucid is GNU Emacs editor (with Lucid GUI support)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs24-lucid on Debian 9.

What is emacs24-lucid

emacs24-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 emacs24 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 emacs24-lucid on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install emacs24-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 emacs24-lucid using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install emacs24-lucid

Install emacs24-lucid Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install emacs24-lucid using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install emacs24-lucid

Install emacs24-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 emacs24-lucid using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install emacs24-lucid

How To Uninstall emacs24-lucid on Debian 9

To uninstall only the emacs24-lucid package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove emacs24-lucid

Uninstall emacs24-lucid And Its Dependencies

To uninstall emacs24-lucid and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove emacs24-lucid

Remove emacs24-lucid Configurations and Data

To remove emacs24-lucid configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge emacs24-lucid

Remove emacs24-lucid configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove emacs24-lucid configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge emacs24-lucid

Dependencies

emacs24-lucid have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs24-lucid package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.