How To Install asciidoc-base on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install asciidoc-base on Kali Linux. asciidoc-base is Minimal version of asciidoc not suitable for pdf

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install asciidoc-base on Kali Linux.

What is asciidoc-base

asciidoc-base is:

AsciiDoc is a text document format for writing articles, books, manuals and UNIX man pages. AsciiDoc files can be translated to HTML (with or without stylesheets), DocBook (articles, books and refentry documents) and LinuxDoc using the asciidoc command. AsciiDoc can also be used to build and maintain websites.

You write an AsciiDoc document the same way you would write a normal text document, there are no markup tags or weird format notations. AsciiDoc files are designed to be viewed, edited and printed directly or translated to other presentation formats

This package provides binary files for the package. Be careful, you won’t be able to build pdf files without the dblatex or fop dependencies. See asciidoc-dblatex or asciidoc-fop metapackages for this.

There are three methods to install asciidoc-base 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 asciidoc-base Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install asciidoc-base

Install asciidoc-base Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install asciidoc-base

Install asciidoc-base 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 asciidoc-base using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install asciidoc-base

How To Uninstall asciidoc-base on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the asciidoc-base package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove asciidoc-base

Uninstall asciidoc-base And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove asciidoc-base

Remove asciidoc-base Configurations and Data

To remove asciidoc-base configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge asciidoc-base

Remove asciidoc-base configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge asciidoc-base

Dependencies

asciidoc-base have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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