How To Install esix on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install esix on Kali Linux. esix is PDP-8 Engineering and Scientific Interpreter eXtended

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install esix on Kali Linux.

What is esix

esix is:

ESI-X was the first stored program scientific interpreter for the PDP-8. ESI was designed by Dave Waks on 8/3/66 and was vaguely based on RAND’s JOSS. In 1967 Bob Supnik extended the program to support 8KW of memory, and this became the “ESI-extended” or ESI-X FOCAL was eventually the successor of ESI-X.

There are three methods to install esix 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 esix Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install esix

Install esix Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install esix using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install esix

Install esix 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 esix using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install esix

How To Uninstall esix on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the esix package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove esix

Uninstall esix And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove esix

Remove esix Configurations and Data

To remove esix configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge esix

Remove esix configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge esix

Dependencies

esix have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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