How To Install elscreen on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install elscreen on Kali Linux.

What is elscreen

elscreen is:

This Emacs Lisp enables you to have multiple screens (window-configuration) on your Emacsen, just like GNU screen does on the shell environment.

There are three methods to install elscreen 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 elscreen Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install elscreen

Install elscreen Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install elscreen using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install elscreen

Install elscreen 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 elscreen using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install elscreen

How To Uninstall elscreen on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the elscreen package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove elscreen

Uninstall elscreen And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove elscreen

Remove elscreen Configurations and Data

To remove elscreen configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge elscreen

Remove elscreen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elscreen

Dependencies

elscreen have the following dependencies:

• apel

References

• elscreen website

Summary

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