How To Install elscreen on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elscreen on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is elscreen
elscreen is:
This Emacs Lisp enables you to have multiple screens (window-configuration) on your Emacsen, just like GNU screen does on the shell environment.
There are three methods to install elscreen on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install elscreen Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install elscreen using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elscreen
Install elscreen Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elscreen using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elscreen
Install elscreen 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 elscreen using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elscreen
How To Uninstall elscreen on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the elscreen package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elscreen
Uninstall elscreen And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elscreen and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elscreen
Remove elscreen Configurations and Data
To remove elscreen configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elscreen
Remove elscreen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elscreen configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elscreen
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elscreen package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
