How To Install pandoc-data on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pandoc-data on Ubuntu 18.04.
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. It can read several dialects of Markdown and (subsets of) HTML, reStructuredText, LaTeX, DocBook, MediaWiki markup, TWiki markup, Haddock markup, OPML, Emacs Org-mode, txt2tags, Word Docx, ODT, and Textile, and it can write Markdown, reStructuredText, XHTML, HTML 5, LaTeX (including rendering as plain PDF or beamer slide shows), ConTeXt, DocBook, OPML, TEI, OpenDocument, ODT, Word docx, RTF, MediaWiki, DokuWiki, ZimWiki, Textile, groff man pages, GNU Texinfo, plain text, Emacs Org-Mode, AsciiDoc, Haddock markup, EPUB (v2 and v3), FictionBook2, InDesign ICML, and several kinds of HTML/javascript slide shows (S5, Slidy, Slideous, DZSlides, reveal.js).
In contrast to most existing tools for converting Markdown to HTML, pandoc has a modular design: it consists of a set of readers, which parse text in a given format and produce a native representation of the document, and a set of writers, which convert this native representation into a target format. Thus, adding an input or output format requires only adding a reader or writer.
This package contains the data files for pandoc.
There are three methods to install pandoc-data on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pandoc-data package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
