How To Install minify on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is minify

minify is:

/usr/bin/minify is a CLI implementation of the github.com/tdewolff/minify Go library package.

It provides HTML5, CSS3, JS, JSON, SVG and XML minifiers.

Minification is the process of removing bytes from a file (such as whitespace) without changing its output and therefore shrinking its size and speeding up transmission over the Internet and possibly parsing. The implemented minifiers are high performance and streaming, which implies O(n).

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install minify

Install minify Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install minify

Install minify 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 minify using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install minify

How To Uninstall minify on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove minify

Uninstall minify And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove minify

Remove minify Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge minify

Remove minify configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge minify

Dependencies

minify have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• minify website

Summary

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