Information about the package, emacs-el, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The emacs-el package is designed for, Emacs Lisp source files included with Emacs..
Package Name:
emacs-el
Summary:
Emacs Lisp source files included with Emacs.
Description:
Emacs-el contains the emacs-elisp sources for many of the elisp programs included with the main Emacs text editor package. You need to install emacs-el only if you intend to modify any of the Emacs packages or see some elisp examples.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
23.1
Release:
28.el6
Size:
12 M
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv3+
Control the emacs-el package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install emacs-el
This command will install emacs-el on the server.
yum remove emacs-el
This command will un-install emacs-el on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove emacs-el, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove emacs-el
This command will un-install emacs-el on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove emacs-el when using the -y flag.
yum update emacs-el
This command will update emacs-el to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove emacs-el, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update emacs-el
This command will update emacs-el to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove emacs-el when using the -y flag.
yum info emacs-el
This command will show you core information about the emacs-el package.
yum deplist emacs-el
This command will show you the dependencies for emacs-el. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update emacs-el
This command will check if there is an update waiting on emacs-el. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.