How To Install markdent on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install markdent on Ubuntu 22.04. markdent is event-based Markdown parser toolkit - command-line tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install markdent on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is markdent

markdent is:

Markdent provides a toolkit for parsing Markdown (and Markdown variants, aka dialects). Unlike the other Markdown Perl tools, this module can be used for more than just generating HTML. The core parser generates events (like XML’s SAX), making it easy to analyze a Markdown document in any number of ways.

If you’re only interested in converting Markdown to HTML, you can use the Markdent::Simple::Document class to do this, although you can just as well use better battle-tested tools like Text::Markdown.

Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain text formatting syntax. Its design allows it to be converted to many output formats, but the original tool by the same name only supports HTML.

This package provides the command-line tool markdent-html, including Perl module Markdent::CLI.

There are three methods to install markdent on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install markdent Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install markdent

Install markdent Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install markdent

Install markdent 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install markdent

How To Uninstall markdent on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove markdent

Uninstall markdent And Its Dependencies

To uninstall markdent and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove markdent

Remove markdent Configurations and Data

To remove markdent configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge markdent

Remove markdent configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge markdent

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install markdent package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.