How To Install html2ps on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install html2ps on Kali Linux.

What is html2ps

html2ps is:

This program converts HTML directly to PostScript. The HTML code can be retrieved from one or more URLs or local files, specified as parameters on the command line. A comprehensive level of HTML is supported, including inline images, CSS 1.0, and some features of HTML 4.0.

This is our justification for the suggests list:

We suggest ghostscript since it is required in order to output DSC compliant PS (–dsc option) and make cross references at links within the set of converted documents (–xref option).

We suggest weblint-perl because it’s the default method for checking HTML syntax (use the -c option).

We suggest texlive-base because we need TeX hyphenation pattern in order to hyphenate text (use -H option).

We suggest postscript-viewer because this package generates postscripts that can be viewed on a postscript-viewer.

We suggest xhtml2ps because it’s a interesting graphical interface for this package.

There are three methods to install html2ps 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 html2ps Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install html2ps using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install html2ps

Install html2ps Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install html2ps using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install html2ps

Install html2ps 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 html2ps using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install html2ps

How To Uninstall html2ps on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the html2ps package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove html2ps

Uninstall html2ps And Its Dependencies

To uninstall html2ps and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove html2ps

Remove html2ps Configurations and Data

To remove html2ps configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge html2ps

Remove html2ps configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove html2ps configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge html2ps

Dependencies

html2ps have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• html2ps website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install html2ps package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.