How To Install elpa-muse on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-muse on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is elpa-muse
elpa-muse is:
Emacs Muse is an authoring and publishing environment for Emacs. It simplifies the process of writings documents and publishing them to various output formats, such as DocBook, LaTeX, (X)HTML, TexInfo, and PDF. It can even produce content suitable for blogging, such as Blosxom-style .txt files and RDF or RSS 2.0 feeds, using the muse-blosxom and muse-journal modules.
Muse consists of two main parts: an enhanced text-mode for authoring documents and navigating within Muse projects, and a set of publishing styles for generating different kinds of output.
There are three methods to install elpa-muse 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 elpa-muse Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-muse using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elpa-muse
Install elpa-muse Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-muse using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elpa-muse
Install elpa-muse 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 elpa-muse using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elpa-muse
How To Uninstall elpa-muse on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the elpa-muse package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elpa-muse
Uninstall elpa-muse And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elpa-muse and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-muse
Remove elpa-muse Configurations and Data
To remove elpa-muse configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-muse
Remove elpa-muse configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elpa-muse configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-muse
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-muse package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
