How To Install mew-beta on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install mew-beta on Kali Linux. mew-beta is mail reader supporting PGP/MIME for Emacs (development version)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mew-beta on Kali Linux.

What is mew-beta

mew-beta is:

Mew (Messaging in the Emacs World) is a user interface for text messages, multimedia messages (MIME), news articles and security functionality including PGP, S/MIME, SSH and SSL.

The features of Mew are as follows:

  • POP, SMTP, NNTP and IMAP are supported.
  • You can easily display a very complicated structured message.
  • You can start to read messages before they are all fully listed.
  • For refiling, default folders are neatly suggested.
  • You can complete field names, e-mail addresses, receiver’s names, domain names and folder names.
  • You can easily search messages with keywords etc.
  • Thread, a mechanism to display the flow of messages, is supported.

This package provides a development snapshot version of Mew. To use a stable version of Mew, install the mew package instead of this package.

There are three methods to install mew-beta 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 mew-beta Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mew-beta

Install mew-beta Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mew-beta

Install mew-beta 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 mew-beta using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mew-beta

How To Uninstall mew-beta on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the mew-beta package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mew-beta

Uninstall mew-beta And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mew-beta

Remove mew-beta Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge mew-beta

Remove mew-beta configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mew-beta

Dependencies

mew-beta have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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