How To Install emacs-gtk on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-gtk on Kali Linux.

What is emacs-gtk

emacs-gtk is:

GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. This package contains a version of Emacs with a graphical user interface based on GTK+ (instead of the Lucid toolkit provided by the emacs-lucid package).

There are three methods to install emacs-gtk 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 emacs-gtk Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install emacs-gtk

Install emacs-gtk Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install emacs-gtk

Install emacs-gtk 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 emacs-gtk using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install emacs-gtk

How To Uninstall emacs-gtk on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the emacs-gtk package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove emacs-gtk

Uninstall emacs-gtk And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove emacs-gtk

Remove emacs-gtk Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge emacs-gtk

Remove emacs-gtk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge emacs-gtk

Dependencies

emacs-gtk have the following dependencies:

• emacs-bin-common

References

• emacs-gtk website

Summary

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