How To Install remembrance-agent on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install remembrance-agent on Kali Linux. remembrance-agent is Emacs mode to help find relevant texts

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install remembrance-agent on Kali Linux.

What is remembrance-agent

remembrance-agent is:

The Remembrance Agent is one of the projects being developed by the MIT Media Lab’s software agents group. Given a collection of the user’s accumulated email, Usenet news articles, papers, saved HTML files and other text notes, it attempts to find those documents which are most relevant to the user’s current context. That is, it searches this collection of text for the documents which bear the highest word-for-word similarity to the text the user is currently editing, in the hope that they will also bear high conceptual similarity and thus be useful to the user’s current work. These suggestions are continuously displayed in a small buffer at the bottom of the user’s emacs buffer. If a suggestion looks useful, the full text can be retrieved with a single command.

There are three methods to install remembrance-agent 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 remembrance-agent Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install remembrance-agent

Install remembrance-agent Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install remembrance-agent

Install remembrance-agent 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 remembrance-agent using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install remembrance-agent

How To Uninstall remembrance-agent on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the remembrance-agent package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove remembrance-agent

Uninstall remembrance-agent And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove remembrance-agent

Remove remembrance-agent Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge remembrance-agent

Remove remembrance-agent configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge remembrance-agent

Dependencies

remembrance-agent have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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