How To Install libjs-prettify on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libjs-prettify
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libjs-prettify
libjs-prettify is:
A Javascript module and CSS file that allows syntax highlighting of source code snippets in an html page.
Features:
- Works on HTML pages
- Works even if code contains embedded links, line numbers, etc.
- Simple API : include some JS&CSS and add an onload handler.
- Customizable styles via CSS. See the themes gallery
- Supports all C-like, Bash-like, and XML-like languages.
- Extensible language handlers for other languages.
- Widely used with good cross-browser support.
There are three methods to install libjs-prettify
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 libjs-prettify 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-prettify
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libjs-prettify
Install libjs-prettify Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libjs-prettify
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libjs-prettify
Install libjs-prettify 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 libjs-prettify
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libjs-prettify
How To Uninstall libjs-prettify on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libjs-prettify
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libjs-prettify
Uninstall libjs-prettify And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libjs-prettify
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libjs-prettify
Remove libjs-prettify Configurations and Data
To remove libjs-prettify
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libjs-prettify
Remove libjs-prettify configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libjs-prettify
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libjs-prettify
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libjs-prettify
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.