How To Install emacs-lucid on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is emacs-lucid

emacs-lucid is:

GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. This package contains a version of Emacs with support for a graphical user interface based on the Lucid toolkit (instead of the GTK+ interface provided by the emacs-gtk package). Until some known GTK+ problems are fixed, this version may help avoid crashing Emacs during an emacsclient disconnect. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567934 and https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715 for more information.

There are three methods to install emacs-lucid 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-lucid 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-lucid using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install emacs-lucid

Install emacs-lucid Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install emacs-lucid

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

sudo aptitude -y install emacs-lucid

How To Uninstall emacs-lucid on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove emacs-lucid

Uninstall emacs-lucid And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove emacs-lucid

Remove emacs-lucid Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge emacs-lucid

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

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

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

Dependencies

emacs-lucid have the following dependencies:

• emacs-bin-common

References

• emacs-lucid website

Summary

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