How To Install highlight-common on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install highlight-common
on Debian 11.
What is highlight-common
highlight-common is:
A utility that converts sourcecode to HTML, XHTML, RTF, LaTeX, TeX, SVG, XML or terminal escape sequences with syntax highlighting. It supports several programming and markup languages. Language descriptions are configurable and support regular expressions. The utility offers indentation and reformatting capabilities. It is easily possible to create new language definitions and colour themes.
These are the architecture independent files.
There are three methods to install highlight-common
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install highlight-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install highlight-common
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install highlight-common
Install highlight-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install highlight-common
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install highlight-common
Install highlight-common 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 highlight-common
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install highlight-common
How To Uninstall highlight-common on Debian 11
To uninstall only the highlight-common
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove highlight-common
Uninstall highlight-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall highlight-common
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove highlight-common
Remove highlight-common Configurations and Data
To remove highlight-common
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge highlight-common
Remove highlight-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove highlight-common
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge highlight-common
Dependencies
highlight-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install highlight-common
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.