How To Install pandoc on Debian 12

Learn how to install pandoc on Debian 12 with this tutorial. pandoc is general markup converter

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pandoc on Debian 12.

What is pandoc

pandoc is:

Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. The formats it can handle include

  • light markup formats (many variants of Markdown, reStructuredText, AsciiDoc, Org-mode, Muse, Textile, txt2tags)
  • HTML formats (HTML 4 and 5)
  • Ebook formats (EPUB v2 and v3, FB2)
  • Documentation formats (GNU TexInfo, Haddock)
  • Roff formats (man, ms)
  • TeX formats (LaTeX, ConTeXt)
  • XML formats (DocBook 4 and 5, JATS, TEI Simple, OpenDocument)
  • Outline formats (OPML)
  • Bibliography formats (BibTeX, BibLaTeX, CSL JSON, CSL YAML)
  • Word processor formats (Docx, RTF, ODT)
  • Interactive notebook formats (Jupyter notebook ipynb)
  • Page layout formats (InDesign ICML)
  • Wiki markup formats (MediaWiki, DokuWiki, TikiWiki, TWiki, Vimwiki, XWiki, ZimWiki, Jira wiki, Creole)
  • Slide show formats (LaTeX Beamer, PowerPoint, Slidy, reveal.js, Slideous, S5, DZSlides)
  • Data formats (CSV tables)
  • PDF (via external programs such as pdflatex or wkhtmltopdf)

Pandoc can convert mathematical content in documents between TeX, MathML, Word equations, roff eqn, and plain text. It includes a powerful system for automatic citations and bibliographies, and it can be customized extensively using templates, filters, and custom readers and writers written in Lua.

This package contains the pandoc tool.

Some uses of Pandoc require additional packages:

  • SVG content in PDF output requires librsvg2-bin.
  • YAML metadata in TeX-related output requires texlive-latex-extra.
  • *.hs filters not set executable requires ghc.
  • *.js filters not set executable requires nodejs.
  • *.php filters not set executable requires php.
  • *.pl filters not set executable requires perl.
  • *.py filters not set executable requires python.
  • *.rb filters not set executable requires ruby.
  • *.r filters not set executable requires r-base-core.
  • LaTeX output, and PDF output via PDFLaTeX, require texlive-latex-recommended.
  • XeLaTeX output, and PDF output via XeLaTeX, require texlive-xetex.
  • LuaTeX output, and PDF output via LuaTeX, require texlive-luatex.
  • ConTeXt output, and PDF output via ConTeXt, require context.
  • PDF output via wkhtmltopdf requires wkhtmltopdf.
  • Roff man and roff ms output, and PDF output via roff ms, require groff.
  • MathJax-rendered equations require libjs-mathjax.
  • KaTeX-rendered equations require node-katex.
  • option –csl may use styles in citation-style-language-styles.

There are three methods to install pandoc on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install pandoc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install pandoc

Install pandoc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pandoc

Install pandoc 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 pandoc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pandoc

How To Uninstall pandoc on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove pandoc

Uninstall pandoc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pandoc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pandoc

Remove pandoc Configurations and Data

To remove pandoc configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pandoc

Remove pandoc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pandoc

Dependencies

pandoc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pandoc package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.