How To Install elpa-org-bullets on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-org-bullets on Ubuntu 18.04. elpa-org-bullets is show bullets in Org-mode as UTF-8 characters

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-org-bullets on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is elpa-org-bullets

elpa-org-bullets is:

This package replaces the *s in Org-mode documents with bullets with fancy UTF-8 characters. Bullet face depend on the heading level of a particular string and can be redefined to be literally any character.

There are three methods to install elpa-org-bullets 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-org-bullets 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-org-bullets using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install elpa-org-bullets

Install elpa-org-bullets Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install elpa-org-bullets using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install elpa-org-bullets

Install elpa-org-bullets 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-org-bullets using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install elpa-org-bullets

How To Uninstall elpa-org-bullets on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the elpa-org-bullets package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove elpa-org-bullets

Uninstall elpa-org-bullets And Its Dependencies

To uninstall elpa-org-bullets and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-org-bullets

Remove elpa-org-bullets Configurations and Data

To remove elpa-org-bullets configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-org-bullets

Remove elpa-org-bullets configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove elpa-org-bullets configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-org-bullets

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-org-bullets package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.