How To Install source-highlight on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install source-highlight on CentOS 8.
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 8. 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 8 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 8 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 8
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 8 using yum and dnf.