How To Install node-highlight on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-highlight on Debian 9.

What is node-highlight

node-highlight is:

This is a transitional package to ease upgrades to the node-highlight.js package. It can safely be removed.

There are three methods to install node-highlight on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install node-highlight Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install node-highlight

Install node-highlight Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-highlight

Install node-highlight Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install node-highlight using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-highlight

How To Uninstall node-highlight on Debian 9

To uninstall only the node-highlight package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove node-highlight

Uninstall node-highlight And Its Dependencies

To uninstall node-highlight and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-highlight

Remove node-highlight Configurations and Data

To remove node-highlight configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-highlight

Remove node-highlight configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-highlight

Dependencies

node-highlight have the following dependencies:

• node-highlight.js

References

• node-highlight website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-highlight package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.