How To Install fop-doc on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fop-doc on Kali Linux.

What is fop-doc

fop-doc is:

FOP is a Java application that reads a formatting object tree and then turns it into a wide variety of output presentations (including AFP, PCL, PDF, PNG, PostScript, RTF, TIFF, and plain text), or displays the result on-screen.

The formatting object tree can be in the form of an XML document (output by an XSLT engine like xalan) or can be passed in memory as a DOM Document or (in the case of xalan) SAX events.

This package contains the documentation.

There are three methods to install fop-doc 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 fop-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install fop-doc

Install fop-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fop-doc

Install fop-doc 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 fop-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fop-doc

How To Uninstall fop-doc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the fop-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fop-doc

Uninstall fop-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fop-doc

Remove fop-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fop-doc

Remove fop-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fop-doc

Dependencies

fop-doc have the following dependencies:

References

• fop-doc website

Summary

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