How To Install elpa-perspective on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-perspective on Kali Linux. elpa-perspective is tagged workspaces in Emacs

Introduction

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

What is elpa-perspective

elpa-perspective is:

This package provides tagged workspaces in Emacs, similar to workspaces in windows managers such as Awesome and XMonad (and somewhat similar to multiple desktops in GNOME or Spaces in OS X).

perspective.el provides multiple workspaces (or “perspectives”) for each Emacs frame. This makes it easy to work on many separate projects without getting lost in all the buffers.

Each perspective is composed of a window configuration and a set of buffers. Switching to a perspective activates its window configuration, and when in a perspective only its buffers are available by default.

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

sudo apt-get -y install elpa-perspective

Install elpa-perspective Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install elpa-perspective

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

sudo aptitude -y install elpa-perspective

How To Uninstall elpa-perspective on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove elpa-perspective

Uninstall elpa-perspective And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-perspective

Remove elpa-perspective Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-perspective

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

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

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

Dependencies

elpa-perspective have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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