How To Install python3-html-sanitizer on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-html-sanitizer on Kali Linux. python3-html-sanitizer is HTML sanitizer with more HTML fragment transforms

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-html-sanitizer on Kali Linux.

What is python3-html-sanitizer

python3-html-sanitizer is:

This is an allowlist-based and very opinionated HTML sanitizer that can be used both for untrusted and trusted sources. It attempts to clean up the mess made by various rich text editors and or copy-pasting to make styling of webpages simpler and more consistent. It builds on the excellent HTML cleaner in lxml to make the result both valid and safe.

HTML sanitizer goes further than e.g. bleach in that it not only ensures that content is safe and tags and attributes conform to a given allowlist, but also applies additional transforms to HTML fragments.

There are three methods to install python3-html-sanitizer 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 python3-html-sanitizer Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-html-sanitizer using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-html-sanitizer

Install python3-html-sanitizer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-html-sanitizer using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-html-sanitizer

Install python3-html-sanitizer 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 python3-html-sanitizer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-html-sanitizer

How To Uninstall python3-html-sanitizer on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the python3-html-sanitizer package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-html-sanitizer

Uninstall python3-html-sanitizer And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-html-sanitizer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-html-sanitizer

Remove python3-html-sanitizer Configurations and Data

To remove python3-html-sanitizer configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-html-sanitizer

Remove python3-html-sanitizer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-html-sanitizer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-html-sanitizer

Dependencies

python3-html-sanitizer have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-html-sanitizer package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.