How To Install t3highlight on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install t3highlight on Debian 12.
What is t3highlight
t3highlight is:
The libt3highlight library provides functions for syntax-highlighting different types of text files. Its main design goal is an easily restartable syntax highlighting, suitable for use in interactive text editors.
To make the syntax highlighting restartable, libt3highlight uses a single integer start-of-line state. However, it does provide several advanced features, such as dynamic end-of-state patterns, which make it possible to highlight complex languages like Perl and Bash with high fidelity.
This package contains the t3highlight program, which allows applying the syntax highlighting capabilities of libt3highlight on the command line to produce for example HTML output.
There are three methods to install t3highlight on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install t3highlight Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install t3highlight using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install t3highlight
Install t3highlight Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install t3highlight using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install t3highlight
Install t3highlight 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install t3highlight using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install t3highlight
How To Uninstall t3highlight on Debian 12
To uninstall only the t3highlight package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove t3highlight
Uninstall t3highlight And Its Dependencies
To uninstall t3highlight and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove t3highlight
Remove t3highlight Configurations and Data
To remove t3highlight configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge t3highlight
Remove t3highlight configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove t3highlight configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge t3highlight
Dependencies
t3highlight have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install t3highlight package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
