How To Install python3-xhtml2pdf on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-xhtml2pdf on Kali Linux. python3-xhtml2pdf is A library for converting HTML into PDFs using ReportLab (Python 3 module)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-xhtml2pdf on Kali Linux.

What is python3-xhtml2pdf

python3-xhtml2pdf is:

xhtml2pdf is a html2pdf converter using the ReportLab Toolkit, the HTML5lib and pyPdf. It supports HTML 5 and CSS 2.1 (and some of CSS 3). It is completely written in pure Python so it is platform independent.

The main benefit of this tool that a user with Web skills like HTML and CSS is able to generate PDF templates very quickly without learning new technologies.

xhtml2pdf was previously developed as “pisa”.

This package installs the library for Python 3.

There are three methods to install python3-xhtml2pdf 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-xhtml2pdf 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-xhtml2pdf using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-xhtml2pdf

Install python3-xhtml2pdf Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-xhtml2pdf using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-xhtml2pdf

Install python3-xhtml2pdf 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-xhtml2pdf using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-xhtml2pdf

How To Uninstall python3-xhtml2pdf on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the python3-xhtml2pdf package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-xhtml2pdf

Uninstall python3-xhtml2pdf And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-xhtml2pdf and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-xhtml2pdf

Remove python3-xhtml2pdf Configurations and Data

To remove python3-xhtml2pdf configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-xhtml2pdf

Remove python3-xhtml2pdf configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-xhtml2pdf configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-xhtml2pdf

Dependencies

python3-xhtml2pdf have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-xhtml2pdf package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.