How To Install pandoc-data on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pandoc-data on Debian 12.
What is pandoc-data
pandoc-data is:
Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. The formats it can handle include
- light markup formats (many variants of Markdown, reStructuredText, AsciiDoc, Org-mode, Muse, Textile, txt2tags)
- HTML formats (HTML 4 and 5)
- Ebook formats (EPUB v2 and v3, FB2)
- Documentation formats (GNU TexInfo, Haddock)
- Roff formats (man, ms)
- TeX formats (LaTeX, ConTeXt)
- XML formats (DocBook 4 and 5, JATS, TEI Simple, OpenDocument)
- Outline formats (OPML)
- Bibliography formats (BibTeX, BibLaTeX, CSL JSON, CSL YAML)
- Word processor formats (Docx, RTF, ODT)
- Interactive notebook formats (Jupyter notebook ipynb)
- Page layout formats (InDesign ICML)
- Wiki markup formats (MediaWiki, DokuWiki, TikiWiki, TWiki, Vimwiki, XWiki, ZimWiki, Jira wiki, Creole)
- Slide show formats (LaTeX Beamer, PowerPoint, Slidy, reveal.js, Slideous, S5, DZSlides)
- Data formats (CSV tables)
- PDF (via external programs such as pdflatex or wkhtmltopdf)
Pandoc can convert mathematical content in documents between TeX, MathML, Word equations, roff eqn, and plain text. It includes a powerful system for automatic citations and bibliographies, and it can be customized extensively using templates, filters, and custom readers and writers written in Lua.
This package contains the data files for pandoc.
There are three methods to install pandoc-data 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 pandoc-data Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pandoc-data using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pandoc-data
Install pandoc-data Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pandoc-data using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pandoc-data
Install pandoc-data 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 pandoc-data using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pandoc-data
How To Uninstall pandoc-data on Debian 12
To uninstall only the pandoc-data package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pandoc-data
Uninstall pandoc-data And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pandoc-data and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pandoc-data
Remove pandoc-data Configurations and Data
To remove pandoc-data configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pandoc-data
Remove pandoc-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pandoc-data configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pandoc-data
Dependencies
pandoc-data have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pandoc-data package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
