How To Install xemacs-packages-extra on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xemacs-packages-extra on CentOS 7.

What is xemacs-packages-extra

XEmacs is a highly customizable open source text editor and application development system. It is protected under the GNU General Public License and related to other versions of Emacs, in particular GNU Emacs. Its emphasis is on modern graphical user interface support and an open software development model, similar to Linux. The XEmacs packages collection contains a large collection of useful lisp packages for XEmacs including mail readers, programming modes and utilities, and packages related to using XEmacs in multi-lingual environments.

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

Install xemacs-packages-extra on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install xemacs-packages-extra using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xemacs-packages-extra

Install xemacs-packages-extra 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 xemacs-packages-extra using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xemacs-packages-extra

How To Uninstall xemacs-packages-extra on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the xemacs-packages-extra package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove xemacs-packages-extra

References

• xemacs-packages-extra website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install xemacs-packages-extra on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.