How To Install elpa-elfeed on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-elfeed on Kali Linux.

What is elpa-elfeed

elpa-elfeed is:

Elfeed is an extensible web feed reader for Emacs, supporting both Atom and RSS. Elfeed was inspired by notmuch.

There are three methods to install elpa-elfeed on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install elpa-elfeed Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install elpa-elfeed using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install elpa-elfeed

Install elpa-elfeed Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install elpa-elfeed using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install elpa-elfeed

Install elpa-elfeed Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install elpa-elfeed using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install elpa-elfeed

How To Uninstall elpa-elfeed on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the elpa-elfeed package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove elpa-elfeed

Uninstall elpa-elfeed And Its Dependencies

To uninstall elpa-elfeed and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-elfeed

Remove elpa-elfeed Configurations and Data

To remove elpa-elfeed configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-elfeed

Remove elpa-elfeed configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove elpa-elfeed configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-elfeed

Dependencies

elpa-elfeed have the following dependencies:

• dh-elpa-helper
• emacsen-common

References

• elpa-elfeed website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-elfeed package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.