How To Install source-highlight on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install source-highlight on CentOS 7. source-highlight is Produces a document with syntax highlighting

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install source-highlight on CentOS 7.

What is source-highlight

This program, given a source file, produces a document with syntax highlighting. At the moment this package can handle Java, Javascript, C/C++, Prolog, Perl, Php3, Python, Flex, ChangeLog, Ruby, Lua, Caml, Sml and Log as source languages, and HTML, XHTML and ANSI color escape sequences as output format. This program, given a source file, produces a document with syntax highlighting. At the moment this package can handle Java, Javascript, C/C++, Prolog, Perl, Php3, Python, Flex, ChangeLog, Ruby, Lua, Caml, Sml and Log as source languages, and HTML, XHTML and ANSI color escape sequences as output format.

We can use yum or dnf to install source-highlight on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install source-highlight.

Install source-highlight on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install source-highlight using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install source-highlight

Install source-highlight on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install source-highlight using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install source-highlight

How To Uninstall source-highlight on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the source-highlight package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove source-highlight

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install source-highlight on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.