How To Install mmark on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mmark on Debian 10.
What is mmark
mmark is:
Write RFCs using markdown. Mmark (written in Go) provides an advanced markdown dialect that processes a single file to produce internet-drafts in XML format. Internet-drafts written in mmark can produce XML2RFC v2 and XML2RFC v3 output.
Mmark is a fork of blackfriday which is a Markdown processor implemented in Go. It supports a number of extensions, inspired by Leanpub, kramdown and Asciidoc, that allows for large documents to be written. It is specifically designed to write Internet Drafts (I-Ds) and RFCs for the IETF. With mmark you can create a single file that serves as input into the XML2RFC processor.
It can currently output HTML5, XML2RFC v2 and XML2RFC v3 XML. Other output engines could be added.
This package provides the /usr/bin/mmark executable binary and documentation.
There are three methods to install mmark on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mmark Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mmark using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mmark
Install mmark Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mmark using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mmark
Install mmark 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 mmark using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mmark
How To Uninstall mmark on Debian 10
To uninstall only the mmark package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mmark
Uninstall mmark And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mmark and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mmark
Remove mmark Configurations and Data
To remove mmark configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mmark
Remove mmark configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mmark configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mmark
Dependencies
mmark have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mmark package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
