How To Install html2text on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install html2text
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is html2text
html2text is:
html2text is a converter from HTML to plain text.
html2text reads HTML documents supplied in the command line (or from standard input), converts each of them into a stream of plain text characters and writes output to the file or the terminal.
Debian version also can recognize encoding of documents, do on-fly input and output recoding.
html2text was written because the author wasn’t happy with the output of “lynx -dump” and so he wrote something better.
There are three methods to install html2text
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install html2text Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install html2text
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install html2text
Install html2text Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install html2text
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install html2text
Install html2text 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install html2text
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install html2text
How To Uninstall html2text on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the html2text
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove html2text
Uninstall html2text And Its Dependencies
To uninstall html2text
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove html2text
Remove html2text Configurations and Data
To remove html2text
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge html2text
Remove html2text configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove html2text
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge html2text
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install html2text
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.