How To Install highlight-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install highlight-common on Kali Linux.

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 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 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 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 highlight-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install highlight-common

How To Uninstall highlight-common on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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

• highlight-common website

Summary

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