How To Install mew on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install mew on Kali Linux. mew is mail reader supporting PGP/MIME for Emacs

Introduction

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

What is mew

mew 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.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mew

Install mew Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mew

Install mew 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 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mew

How To Uninstall mew on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove mew

Uninstall mew And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mew

Remove mew Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge mew

Remove mew configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mew

Dependencies

mew have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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