How to Install and Uninstall emacs-nox Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: April 27,2024

1. Install "emacs-nox" package

This tutorial shows how to install emacs-nox on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                emacs-nox
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "emacs-nox" package

Learn how to uninstall emacs-nox on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                emacs-nox
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the emacs-nox package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: emacs-nox
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:26.3+1-1ubuntu2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/editors
Source: emacs
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Rob Browning
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 41291
Provides: editor, emacs, emacsen, info-browser, mail-reader, news-reader
Depends: emacs-bin-common (= 1:26.3+1-1ubuntu2), emacs-common (= 1:26.3+1-1ubuntu2), libacl1 (>= 2.2.23), libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libc6 (>= 2.29), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libgnutls30 (>= 3.6.11), libgpm2 (>= 1.20.7), liblcms2-2 (>= 2.2+git20110628), libselinux1 (>= 1.32), libsystemd0, libtinfo6 (>= 6), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Suggests: emacs-common-non-dfsg
Conflicts: emacs-gtk, emacs-lucid
Replaces: emacs-gtk, emacs-lucid
Filename: pool/universe/e/emacs/emacs-nox_26.3+1-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 3183408
MD5sum: 35865a577cca6255868f858a55306724
SHA1: f8794fd70072019c96dd52d58c2dbbaabd19a09a
SHA256: 577772151a1bd45e4b6e21746f936d9616606715e43a13a130351d57b5c70de2
SHA512: c89b36ed80626c78ff209c7230ee49e66d7df358935a68eb09e24f7e22e3872766a1ca8fa40f4e14207da5fd205d8a1e82fe643c89708bae268226a67415ff85
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
Description-en: GNU Emacs editor (without GUI support)
GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. This
package contains a version of Emacs compiled without support for X,
and provides only a text terminal interface.
Description-md5: d7627aff9867f2ba95f2b9dcfc399d6a