How To Install w3m-el on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install w3m-el
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is w3m-el
w3m-el is:
Emacs-w3m is an interface program of w3m, a pager with WWW capability. It can be used as a lightweight WWW browser on GNU Emacs.
To use the optional features shimbun (interface with web newspapers), w3m-namazu (search files with Namazu), w3m-perldoc (view perl documents), etc., install the required packages flim, namazu2, perl-doc, etc.
There are three methods to install w3m-el
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install w3m-el Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install w3m-el
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install w3m-el
Install w3m-el Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install w3m-el
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install w3m-el
Install w3m-el 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install w3m-el
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install w3m-el
How To Uninstall w3m-el on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the w3m-el
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove w3m-el
Uninstall w3m-el And Its Dependencies
To uninstall w3m-el
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove w3m-el
Remove w3m-el Configurations and Data
To remove w3m-el
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge w3m-el
Remove w3m-el configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove w3m-el
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge w3m-el
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install w3m-el
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.