How To Install jed on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install jed on Kali Linux.
What is jed
jed is:
Jed is a small, fast and powerful text editor, yet starts faster than bash.
Completely customizable with prepared emulation modes for Emacs, CUA (similar to KDE/Gnome/OpenOffice), Borland-IDE, Brief, and EDT. Extensible in the S-Lang scripting language (with a syntax resembling C).
Editing functions: folding support, rectangular cut/paste, regular expression search/replace, incremental searches, search/replace across multiple files, multiple windows, multiple buffers, …
Tools: directory editor (dired), info (browse GNU info files), mail, rmail, ispell, shell mode, …
Special modes (syntax highlight, indention, compile, …) for Basic, C, C++, DCL, FORTRAN, IDL, Java, nroff, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PostScript, Python, sh. Modes for markup languages include HTML and (La)TeX (with AUC-TeX style editing and BibTeX)
Additional tools and modes can be found in the jed-extra package.
There are three methods to install jed 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 jed Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install jed using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install jedInstall jed Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install jed using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install jedInstall jed 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install jed using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install jedHow To Uninstall jed on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the jed package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove jedUninstall jed And Its Dependencies
To uninstall jed and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove jedRemove jed Configurations and Data
To remove jed configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge jedRemove jed configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove jed configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge jedDependencies
jed have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install jed package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.