How To Install emacs-mercurial.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-mercurial.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. emacs-mercurial.x86_64 is Mercurial version control system support for Emacs

Introduction

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

What is emacs-mercurial.x86_64

Contains byte compiled elisp packages for mercurial. To get started show help with C-c h h

We can use yum to install emacs-mercurial.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-mercurial.x86_64.

Install emacs-mercurial.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-mercurial.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install emacs-mercurial.x86_64

How To Uninstall emacs-mercurial.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove emacs-mercurial.x86_64

emacs-mercurial.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mercurial.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mq.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/mercurial-site-start.el

References

Summary

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