How To Install elpa-smeargle on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is elpa-smeargle

elpa-smeargle is:

smeargle' is an Emacs port of Vim's smeargle. smeargle’ provides highlighting regions by last update time / age of commits. So it is possible to know which part is changed recently and which part is not changed recently.

It supports Git and Mercurial.

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

sudo apt-get -y install elpa-smeargle

Install elpa-smeargle Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install elpa-smeargle

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

sudo aptitude -y install elpa-smeargle

How To Uninstall elpa-smeargle on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove elpa-smeargle

Uninstall elpa-smeargle And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-smeargle

Remove elpa-smeargle Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-smeargle

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

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

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

Dependencies

elpa-smeargle have the following dependencies:

• dh-elpa-helper
• emacsen-common

References

• elpa-smeargle website

Summary

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