How To Install mandoc on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mandoc on Kali Linux.
What is mandoc
mandoc is:
mandoc is a suite of tools compiling mdoc, the roff macro language of choice for BSD manual pages, and man, the predominant historical language for UNIX manuals. It is small, ISO C, ISC-licensed, and quite fast. The main component of the toolset is the mandoc utility program, based on the libmandoc validating compiler, to format output for UNIX terminals (with support for wide-character locales), XHTML, HTML, PostScript, and PDF.
There are three methods to install mandoc 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 mandoc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install mandoc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mandocInstall mandoc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install mandoc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mandocInstall mandoc 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install mandoc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mandocHow To Uninstall mandoc on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the mandoc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mandocUninstall mandoc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mandoc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mandocRemove mandoc Configurations and Data
To remove mandoc configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mandocRemove mandoc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mandoc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mandocDependencies
mandoc have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mandoc package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
