How To Install mg on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install mg on CentOS 7. mg is Tiny Emacs-like editor

Introduction

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

What is mg

mg is a tiny, mostly public-domain Emacs-like editor included in the base OpenBSD system. It is compatible with Emacs because there shouldn’t be any reason to learn more editor types than Emacs or vi.

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

Install mg on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install mg

Install mg 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 mg using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mg

How To Uninstall mg on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove mg

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Summary

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