How To Install elpa-smart-mode-line on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-smart-mode-line on Kali Linux.

What is elpa-smart-mode-line

elpa-smart-mode-line is:

Smart Mode Line is a sexy mode-line for Emacs. Its main features are:

• Highlights the most important information
• Intelligently truncates path name and mode names
• Allows right indentation of strings
• Shorthand directory names (e.g. ~/.emacs.d/ is translated to :ED:)
• Hide or highlight minor-modes
• Easy configuration of all colours and variables
• Compatible with other packages that write to the mode-line

If you have a small screen device such as a netbook and have been looking for a way to maximise the vertical real estate available for editing, without losing the consistent location of the clock, then install this addon, run Emacs full-screen, and discover how powerful the mode-line can be. This makes using screens with a 16:9 aspect ratio slightly less painful.

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

sudo apt-get -y install elpa-smart-mode-line

Install elpa-smart-mode-line Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install elpa-smart-mode-line

Install elpa-smart-mode-line 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-smart-mode-line using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install elpa-smart-mode-line

How To Uninstall elpa-smart-mode-line on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the elpa-smart-mode-line package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove elpa-smart-mode-line

Uninstall elpa-smart-mode-line And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-smart-mode-line

Remove elpa-smart-mode-line Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-smart-mode-line

Remove elpa-smart-mode-line configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-smart-mode-line

Dependencies

elpa-smart-mode-line have the following dependencies:

• elpa-rich-minority
• dh-elpa-helper
• emacsen-common

References

• elpa-smart-mode-line website

Summary

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