How To Install mkdocs-material-extensions on Debian 12

Learn how to install mkdocs-material-extensions on Debian 12 with this tutorial. mkdocs-material-extensions is Markdown extension resources for MkDocs for Material

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mkdocs-material-extensions on Debian 12.

What is mkdocs-material-extensions

mkdocs-material-extensions is:

This package is an extension pack for Python Markdown.

MkDocs Material provides numerous icons from Material, FontAwesome, and Octicons, but it does so by inlining the SVG icons into the source. Currently there is no easy way access these icons and arbitrarily insert them into Markdown content. Users must include the icon fonts themselves and do it with HTML.

This module allows you to use PyMdown Extensions’ Emoji extension to enable easy insertion of MkDocs Material’s SVG assets using simple :emoji-syntax:. This is done by creating a own emoji index and emoji generator. The custom index provides a modified version of the Emoji extensions Twemoji index.

There are three methods to install mkdocs-material-extensions 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-extensions 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-extensions using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mkdocs-material-extensions

Install mkdocs-material-extensions Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mkdocs-material-extensions using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mkdocs-material-extensions

Install mkdocs-material-extensions 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-extensions using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mkdocs-material-extensions

How To Uninstall mkdocs-material-extensions on Debian 12

To uninstall only the mkdocs-material-extensions package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mkdocs-material-extensions

Uninstall mkdocs-material-extensions And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mkdocs-material-extensions and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mkdocs-material-extensions

Remove mkdocs-material-extensions Configurations and Data

To remove mkdocs-material-extensions configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mkdocs-material-extensions

Remove mkdocs-material-extensions configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove mkdocs-material-extensions configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mkdocs-material-extensions

Dependencies

mkdocs-material-extensions have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mkdocs-material-extensions package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.