How To Install highlight on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install highlight on Debian 9.
What is highlight
highlight 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.
There are three methods to install highlight 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 highlight 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install highlight
Install highlight Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install highlight using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install highlight
Install highlight 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install highlight
How To Uninstall highlight on Debian 9
To uninstall only the highlight package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove highlight
Uninstall highlight And Its Dependencies
To uninstall highlight and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove highlight
Remove highlight Configurations and Data
To remove highlight configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge highlight
Remove highlight configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove highlight configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge highlight
Dependencies
highlight have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install highlight package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.