How To Install elpa-pkg-info on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-pkg-info on Kali Linux. elpa-pkg-info is provide information about Emacs packages

Introduction

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

What is elpa-pkg-info

elpa-pkg-info is:

Library of functions to extract information about installed Emacs packages.

There are functions to extract information about locally installed packages, and functions to get the properties and recipe of the package’s MELPA entry.

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

sudo apt-get -y install elpa-pkg-info

Install elpa-pkg-info Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install elpa-pkg-info

Install elpa-pkg-info 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-pkg-info using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install elpa-pkg-info

How To Uninstall elpa-pkg-info on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove elpa-pkg-info

Uninstall elpa-pkg-info And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-pkg-info

Remove elpa-pkg-info Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-pkg-info

Remove elpa-pkg-info configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-pkg-info

Dependencies

elpa-pkg-info have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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