How To Install mkdocs-material on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mkdocs-material on Debian 12.
What is mkdocs-material
mkdocs-material is:
Create a branded static site from a set of Markdown files to host the documentation of your Open Source or commercial project ?? customizable, searchable, mobile-friendly, 40+ languages. Set up in 5 minutes.
Features:
It’s just Markdown ?? write your technical documentation in plain Markdown ?? no need to know HTML, JavaScript, or CSS. Material for MkDocs will do the heavy lifting and convert your writing to a beautiful and functional website.
Responsive by design ?? built from the ground up to work on all sorts of devices ?? from mobile phones to widescreens. The underlying fluid layout will always adapt perfectly to the available screen space.
Static, yet searchable ?? almost magically, your technical documentation website will be searchable without any further ado. Material for MkDocs comes with built-in search ?? no server needed ?? that will instantly answer your users’ queries.
Many configuration options ?? change the color palette, font families, language, icons, favicon and logo. Add a source repository link, links to your social profiles, Google Analytics and Disqus - all with a few lines of code.
Truly international ?? thanks to many contributors, Material for MkDocs includes translations for more than 40 languages and offers full native RTL uright-to-left) support for languages such as Arabic, Persian (Farsi) and Hebrew.
Accessible ?? Material for MkDocs provides extensible keyboard navigation and semantic markup including role attributes and landmarks. Furthermore, the layout is entirely based on rem values, respecting the user’s default font size.
Beyond GitHub Markdown ?? integrates natively with Python Markdown Extensions, offering additional elements like callouts, tabbed content containers, mathematical formulas, critic markup, task lists, and emojis.
Modern architecture ?? Material for MkDocs’s underlying codebase is built with TypeScript, RxJS, and SCSS, and is compiled with Webpack, bringing excellent possibilities for theme extension and customization.
There are three methods to install mkdocs-material on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mkdocs-material Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mkdocs-material using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mkdocs-material
Install mkdocs-material Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mkdocs-material using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mkdocs-material
Install mkdocs-material 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 mkdocs-material using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mkdocs-material
How To Uninstall mkdocs-material on Debian 12
To uninstall only the mkdocs-material package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mkdocs-material
Uninstall mkdocs-material And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mkdocs-material and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mkdocs-material
Remove mkdocs-material Configurations and Data
To remove mkdocs-material configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mkdocs-material
Remove mkdocs-material configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mkdocs-material configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mkdocs-material
Dependencies
mkdocs-material have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mkdocs-material package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
