How To Install latexml on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is latexml

latexml is:

latexml is a program, written in Perl, that attempts to faithfully mimic TeX’s behaviour, but produces XML instead of dvi. The document model of the target XML makes explicit the model implied by LaTeX.

The processing and model are both extensible; you can define the mapping between TeX constructs and the XML fragments to be created. A postprocessor, latexmlpost converts this XML into other formats such as HTML or XHTML, with options to convert the math into MathML (currently only presentation) or images.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install latexml

Install latexml Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install latexml

Install latexml 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 latexml using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install latexml

How To Uninstall latexml on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove latexml

Uninstall latexml And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove latexml

Remove latexml Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge latexml

Remove latexml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge latexml

Dependencies

latexml have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• latexml website

Summary

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