How To Install coderay on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install coderay on Debian 9.
What is coderay
coderay is:
CodeRay is a Ruby library that can scan an input file or text in a web page and encode it as syntax highlighted HTML output.
CodeRay supports many input languages including: C, C++, CSS, Delphi, diff, Groovy, HTML, RHTML (Erb+HTML), Nitro-XHTML, Java, JavaScript, JSON, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL and YAML.
CodeRay can output to HTML, JSON, XML, Yaml.
The coderay binary scans a file and outputs in HTML.
There are three methods to install coderay 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 coderay Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install coderay using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install coderay
Install coderay Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install coderay using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install coderay
Install coderay 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 coderay using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install coderay
How To Uninstall coderay on Debian 9
To uninstall only the coderay package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove coderay
Uninstall coderay And Its Dependencies
To uninstall coderay and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove coderay
Remove coderay Configurations and Data
To remove coderay configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge coderay
Remove coderay configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove coderay configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge coderay
Dependencies
coderay have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install coderay package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.