How To Install emacs-goodies-el on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-goodies-el on Kali Linux.

What is emacs-goodies-el

emacs-goodies-el is:

This is a now a metapackage that installs the elpa-* packages corresponding to some of the previously bundled add-ons.

See /usr/share/doc/emacs-goodies-el/README.Debian.gz for a discussion of the disposition of previously bundled add-ons.

There are three methods to install emacs-goodies-el 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 emacs-goodies-el Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install emacs-goodies-el using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install emacs-goodies-el

Install emacs-goodies-el Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install emacs-goodies-el using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install emacs-goodies-el

Install emacs-goodies-el 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 emacs-goodies-el using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install emacs-goodies-el

How To Uninstall emacs-goodies-el on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the emacs-goodies-el package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove emacs-goodies-el

Uninstall emacs-goodies-el And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove emacs-goodies-el

Remove emacs-goodies-el Configurations and Data

To remove emacs-goodies-el configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge emacs-goodies-el

Remove emacs-goodies-el configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove emacs-goodies-el configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge emacs-goodies-el

Dependencies

emacs-goodies-el have the following dependencies:

• elpa-browse-kill-ring
• elpa-diminish
• elpa-htmlize
• elpa-markdown-mode
• elpa-csv-mode
• elpa-graphviz-dot-mode
• elpa-apache-mode
• elpa-bm
• elpa-boxquote
• elpa-session
• elpa-pod-mode
• elpa-tabbar
• elpa-eproject
• elpa-initsplit
• elpa-bar-cursor
• elpa-mutt-alias
• elpa-folding
• elpa-muttrc-mode

References

• emacs-goodies-el website

Summary

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