How To Install jove on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install jove on CentOS 7. jove is Jonathan’s Own Version of Emacs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install jove on CentOS 7.

What is jove

Jove is a compact, powerful Emacs-style text-editor. It provides the common emacs keyboard bindings, together with a reasonable assortment of the most popular advanced features (e.g. interactive shell windows, compile-it, language specific modes) while weighing in with CPU, memory, and disk requirements comparable to vi(1).

We can use yum or dnf to install jove on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install jove.

Install jove on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install jove using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install jove

Install jove 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 jove using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install jove

How To Uninstall jove on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the jove package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove jove

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install jove on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.