How To Install coderay on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

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 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 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 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 coderay using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install coderay

How To Uninstall coderay on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove coderay

Remove coderay Configurations and Data

To remove coderay configuration and data from Kali Linux 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:

• ruby
• ruby-coderay

References

• coderay website

Summary

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