How To Install mg on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mg on Rocky Linux 8.
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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mg.
Install mg on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install mg using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mg
Install mg on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install mg using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mg
How To Uninstall mg on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the mg package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mg
mg Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/mg
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/46
/usr/lib/.build-id/46/a920807564bb36f89d8c47a9e359a2660fbf6a
/usr/share/doc/mg
/usr/share/doc/mg/README
/usr/share/doc/mg/tutorial
/usr/share/man/man1/mg.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mg on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.