How To Install emacs-a2ps-el.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-a2ps-el.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. emacs-a2ps-el.x86_64 is Elisp source files for emacs-a2ps under GNU Emacs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-a2ps-el.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `emacs-a2ps-el.x86_64`

This package contains the elisp source files for emacs-a2ps under GNU Emacs. You do not need to install this package to run emacs-a2ps. Install the emacs-a2ps package to use emacs-a2ps with GNU Emacs.

We can use yum to install emacs-a2ps-el.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install emacs-a2ps-el.x86_64.

Install emacs-a2ps-el.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install emacs-a2ps-el.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install emacs-a2ps-el.x86_64

How To Uninstall emacs-a2ps-el.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the emacs-a2ps-el.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove emacs-a2ps-el.x86_64

emacs-a2ps-el.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/a2ps/a2ps-print.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/a2ps/a2ps.el

References

emacs-a2ps-el.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-a2ps-el.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.