How To Install libjs-highlight on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libjs-highlight on Debian 9.

What is libjs-highlight

libjs-highlight is:

This is a transitional package to ease upgrades to the libjs-highlight.js package. It can safely be removed.

There are three methods to install libjs-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 libjs-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 libjs-highlight using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libjs-highlight

Install libjs-highlight Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libjs-highlight

Install libjs-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 libjs-highlight using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libjs-highlight

How To Uninstall libjs-highlight on Debian 9

To uninstall only the libjs-highlight package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libjs-highlight

Uninstall libjs-highlight And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libjs-highlight and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libjs-highlight

Remove libjs-highlight Configurations and Data

To remove libjs-highlight configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libjs-highlight

Remove libjs-highlight configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libjs-highlight

Dependencies

libjs-highlight have the following dependencies:

• libjs-highlight.js

References

• libjs-highlight website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libjs-highlight package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.