How To Install tidy on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tidy on Kali Linux.

What is tidy

tidy is:

Tidy corrects and cleans up HTML and XML documents by fixing markup errors and upgrading legacy code to modern standards.

This package contains a command line tool ’tidy'.

There are three methods to install tidy 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 tidy Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tidy

Install tidy Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tidy using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tidy

Install tidy 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 tidy using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tidy

How To Uninstall tidy on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the tidy package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tidy

Uninstall tidy And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tidy

Remove tidy Configurations and Data

To remove tidy configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tidy

Remove tidy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tidy

Dependencies

tidy have the following dependencies:

• libtidy5deb1

References

• tidy website

Summary

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