Emacs 24.X on Kali Linux

If your an avid Emacs user as I am along with being a security geek then you may be disappointed to know that Emacs 24.X is not available in the Kali repos.

This is what you need to do if you want to use Emacs 24.X in your Kali instance:

This process assumes you are using a non-root account with sudo access.

1. Obtain the latest Emacs source package from GNU Emacs Repository.

2. Open a Terminal and extract the Emacs source package locally.

3. Type: sudo apt-get build-dep emacs23

4. Change to the directory where you extracted your Emacs source code.

5. Type: ./configure; make; sudo make install

Let it run and you will then have Emacs 24 installed on your system. It will show up in your Main Menu under Programming > Emacs.

Ping me on the #Kali IRC Freenode channel if you into any issues.

Python Script for Searching ExploitDB

So I was looking to cleanup my Twitter favorites list and starting with the oldest one that was dated from 2011, it was from an article for using a Python script for searching the local ExploitDB instance on Backtrack. So of course it peaked my interest and click on the source link directed me to a parked domain. Common problem with Open Source tools. After performing some Google-Fu, I found a copy and downloaded it to my Kali instance and of course it didn't work as the path for the ExploitDB path has changed. So after a trivial change of pointing it to the correct path, bingo, it works. I have created a 'Kali' repo on my Github if you want to grab it and I'm probably going to be making some updates to it over time.