How To Install elpa-dash on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-dash on Kali Linux. elpa-dash is modern list manipulation library for Emacs

Introduction

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

What is elpa-dash

elpa-dash is:

dash.el is API library to manipulate a list by Emacs Lisp. This library offers very common feature in other programming languages (e.g. map, slice, copy, concat, replace, reduce, union etc) without require a ‘cl’.

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

sudo apt-get -y install elpa-dash

Install elpa-dash Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install elpa-dash

Install elpa-dash 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-dash using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install elpa-dash

How To Uninstall elpa-dash on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove elpa-dash

Uninstall elpa-dash And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-dash

Remove elpa-dash Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-dash

Remove elpa-dash configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-dash

Dependencies

elpa-dash have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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