How To Install e-wrapper on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install e-wrapper on Kali Linux.

What is e-wrapper

e-wrapper is:

All or almost all Unix editors support the syntax of “editor +42 file”, to open the given file and start with the cursor at line 42. Alas, the syntax programs that output such data use is different: either “file:42: Something” or “file:42:1: Something”, :1 being a column number.

This wrapper will recognize such references and call your $EDITOR using the

• notation. Thus, once you see an error message, you can copy&paste the first word of it without having to manually adjust. Especially if your mouse selection is configured to allow ‘:’, it’s a single triple-click (L+L+M), and still pretty handy if not.

If your editor allows multi-open, “e” can also handle pipelines such as:

• git grep MEOW|e -:
• make 2>&1 >/dev/null|grep error:|e -::

Also, because of its short name, it reduces the typing needed to start the editor by half if you use vi, by 80% if emacs or jstar – and that’s by far the most frequent command an Unix user does.

There are three methods to install e-wrapper 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 e-wrapper Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install e-wrapper

Install e-wrapper Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install e-wrapper

Install e-wrapper 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 e-wrapper using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install e-wrapper

How To Uninstall e-wrapper on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the e-wrapper package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove e-wrapper

Uninstall e-wrapper And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove e-wrapper

Remove e-wrapper Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge e-wrapper

Remove e-wrapper configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge e-wrapper

Dependencies

e-wrapper have the following dependencies:

• sensible-utils

References

• e-wrapper website

Summary

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