How To Install cssmin on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install cssmin on Kali Linux. cssmin is YUI CSS compression algorithm (command line tools)

Introduction

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

What is cssmin

cssmin is:

cssmin is a Python port of the YUI Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) compressor. The compressor can be used to reduce the size of CSS documents for deployment.

This package contains the command line tools for cssmin. See the python-cssmin and python3-cssmin packages for the Python modules.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install cssmin

Install cssmin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cssmin

Install cssmin 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 cssmin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cssmin

How To Uninstall cssmin on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove cssmin

Uninstall cssmin And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cssmin

Remove cssmin Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge cssmin

Remove cssmin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cssmin

Dependencies

cssmin have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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