How To Install elpa-atomic-chrome on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-atomic-chrome on Kali Linux. elpa-atomic-chrome is edit a web-browser text entry area with Emacs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-atomic-chrome on Kali Linux.

What is elpa-atomic-chrome

elpa-atomic-chrome is:

Atomic Chrome is an extension for the Chromium and Google Chrome browsers that allows one to edit text entry areas of a web-page in Emacs. Atomic Chrome for Emacs also supports the use of GhostText Chromium and Chrome extension.

This package is similar to “Edit with Emacs”; however, it features two advantages over this alternative as a result of its websocket design:

  • Live update: The text entry area for which Atomic Chrome has been activated and its associated Emacs buffer are synchronised. Updates to one continuously propagate to the other.
  • Bidirectional communication: Edit text in either the browser or Emacs and difference is applied to the other half.

Firefox is also supported via the GhostText browser addon.

There are three methods to install elpa-atomic-chrome 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 elpa-atomic-chrome Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install elpa-atomic-chrome

Install elpa-atomic-chrome Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install elpa-atomic-chrome using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install elpa-atomic-chrome

Install elpa-atomic-chrome 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 elpa-atomic-chrome using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install elpa-atomic-chrome

How To Uninstall elpa-atomic-chrome on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the elpa-atomic-chrome package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove elpa-atomic-chrome

Uninstall elpa-atomic-chrome And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-atomic-chrome

Remove elpa-atomic-chrome Configurations and Data

To remove elpa-atomic-chrome configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-atomic-chrome

Remove elpa-atomic-chrome configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove elpa-atomic-chrome configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-atomic-chrome

Dependencies

elpa-atomic-chrome have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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