How To Install cmark on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cmark
on Kali Linux.
What is cmark
cmark is:
cmark is the C reference implementation of CommonMark, a rationalized version of Markdown syntax with a spec.
cmark parses almost as fast as sundown and hoedown (but safer and less buggy), about 3 times faster than discount, and about 100 times faster than kramdown and pandoc. Memory consumption is on par with sundown and about 10 times less than pandoc.
cmark outputs HTML, groff man, LaTeX, CommonMark, and a custom XML format.
Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain-text-formatting syntax.
This package provides a command-line program (cmark) for parsing and rendering CommonMark documents.
There are three methods to install cmark
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 cmark Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cmark
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cmark
Install cmark Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cmark
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cmark
Install cmark 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 cmark
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cmark
How To Uninstall cmark on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the cmark
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cmark
Uninstall cmark And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cmark
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cmark
Remove cmark Configurations and Data
To remove cmark
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cmark
Remove cmark configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cmark
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cmark
Dependencies
cmark have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cmark
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.