How To Install el-get on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install el-get on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is el-get
el-get is:
Allows you to install and manage elisp code for Emacs. It supports lots of differents types of sources and is able to ‘install’ them, ‘update’ them and ‘remove’ them, but more importantly it will ‘init’ them for you.
That means it will care about requiring the ‘features’ you need, loading the files, setting the ‘Info’ paths so that C-h i shows the new documentation you now depend on, and finally call your own :after function for you to setup the extension.
There are three methods to install el-get on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install el-get Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install el-get using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install el-get
Install el-get Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install el-get using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install el-get
Install el-get 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 el-get using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install el-get
How To Uninstall el-get on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the el-get package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove el-get
Uninstall el-get And Its Dependencies
To uninstall el-get and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove el-get
Remove el-get Configurations and Data
To remove el-get configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge el-get
Remove el-get configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove el-get configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge el-get
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install el-get package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
