How To Install discount on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install discount on Ubuntu 22.04. discount is implementation of the Markdown markup language in C

Introduction

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

What is discount

discount is:

Discount is an implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown markup language. It implements all of the language described in the Markdown syntax document and passes the Markdown 1.0 test suite.

This package provides the discount executables.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install discount

Install discount Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install discount

Install discount 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 discount using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install discount

How To Uninstall discount on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove discount

Uninstall discount And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove discount

Remove discount Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge discount

Remove discount configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge discount

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Summary

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