How To Install bibtex2html on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install bibtex2html on Kali Linux. bibtex2html is filters BibTeX files and translates them to HTML

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bibtex2html on Kali Linux.

What is bibtex2html

bibtex2html is:

Collection of tools for filtering BibTeX data bases and for producing HTML documents from BibTeX data bases:

  • aux2bib extracts a BibTeX database consisting of only the entries that are refereed by an aux file.

  • bib2bib is a filter tool that reads one or several bibliography files, filters the entries with respect to a given criterion, and outputs the list of selected keys together with a new bibliography file containing only the selected entries;

  • bibtex2html is a translator that reads a bibliography file and outputs two HTML documents that are respectively the cited bibliography in a nice presentation, and the original BibTeX file augmented with several transparent HTML links to allow easy navigation.

There are three methods to install bibtex2html 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 bibtex2html Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install bibtex2html using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install bibtex2html

Install bibtex2html Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install bibtex2html using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install bibtex2html

Install bibtex2html 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 bibtex2html using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bibtex2html

How To Uninstall bibtex2html on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the bibtex2html package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove bibtex2html

Uninstall bibtex2html And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bibtex2html and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bibtex2html

Remove bibtex2html Configurations and Data

To remove bibtex2html configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bibtex2html

Remove bibtex2html configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove bibtex2html configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bibtex2html

Dependencies

bibtex2html have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bibtex2html package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.