How To Install rail on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install rail on Kali Linux. rail is Replace Agent-string Internal Library

Introduction

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

What is rail

rail is:

RAIL is a elisp library, translates codenames with Latin chars of FLIM/SEMI/XEmacs/UTF-2000-Mule/Meadow to Japanese characters (On irchat-pj, Japanize code name for “CTCP VERSION” return string).

It also provides a function compatible with genjis.el (a part of tm, that converts mule-version to Japanese characters).

There are three methods to install rail 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 rail Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install rail

Install rail Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install rail

Install rail 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 rail using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rail

How To Uninstall rail on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove rail

Uninstall rail And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rail

Remove rail Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge rail

Remove rail configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rail

Dependencies

rail have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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