How To Install hscolour on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install hscolour on Kali Linux. hscolour is Haskell program to colourise Haskell code

Introduction

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

What is hscolour

hscolour is:

HsColour currently has five output formats: ANSI terminal codes, HTML 3.2 with tags, HTML 4.01 with CSS, LaTeX, and mIRC chat client codes.

There are three methods to install hscolour 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 hscolour Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install hscolour

Install hscolour Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install hscolour using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install hscolour

Install hscolour 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 hscolour using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install hscolour

How To Uninstall hscolour on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the hscolour package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove hscolour

Uninstall hscolour And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove hscolour

Remove hscolour Configurations and Data

To remove hscolour configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge hscolour

Remove hscolour configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hscolour

Dependencies

hscolour have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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