How To Install hsmarkdown on Kali Linux

One-liner install command

For those in a hurry, here's a one-line installation command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt -y install pandoc

But if you are interested in the detailed steps with descriptions, the following information is for you.

What is hsmarkdown and what are the ways to install it?

Before beginning this tutorial, you will need access to a server or computer running Kali Linux. This guide was written specifically with a server running Kali Linux in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install hsmarkdown on Kali Linux. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install hsmarkdown using apt-get

First, update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt -y install pandoc

Install hsmarkdown using apt

Because hsmarkdown is available in Kali Linux’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the apt packaging system.

To begin, update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, You can install hsmarkdown using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install pandoc

Install hsmarkdown 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 Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating aptitude database, You can install hsmarkdown by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pandoc

How to upgrade (update) a single package hsmarkdown using apt-get?

First, you will need to update packages index. Run update command as usual:

sudo apt-get update

Next, to upgrade only the hsmarkdown, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install pandoc

Note that this command will not install any new packages! If you wish to install the package if it doesn't exist you may leave out --only-upgrade part.

sudo apt-get install pandoc

How To Uninstall hsmarkdown from Kali Linux

To uninstall only the hsmarkdown package you can execute the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pandoc

Uninstall hsmarkdown and all its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pandoc

Remove hsmarkdown with all configurations and data

To remove hsmarkdown configuration and data from your system you can run the following purge command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pandoc

Remove hsmarkdown completely (configurations, data and all of its dependencies)

And lastly, you can run the next command to remove absolutely everything related to hsmarkdown package, e.g.: configurations, data and all of its dependencies. Just use this command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pandoc

Extra info and code examples

Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. It can read several dialects of Markdown and (subsets of) HTML, reStructuredText, LaTeX, DocBook, JATS, MediaWiki markup, TWiki markup, TikiWiki markup, Creole 1.0, Haddock markup, OPML, Emacs Org-mode, Emacs Muse, txt2tags, Vimwiki, Word Docx, ODT, EPUB, FictionBook2, and Textile, and it can write Markdown, reStructuredText, XHTML, HTML 5, LaTeX (including rendering as plain PDF or beamer slide shows), ConTeXt, DocBook, JATS, OPML, TEI, OpenDocument, ODT, Word docx, RTF, MediaWiki, DokuWiki, ZimWiki, Textile, groff man, groff ms, GNU Texinfo, plain text, Emacs Org-Mode, AsciiDoc, Haddock markup, EPUB (v2 and v3), FictionBook2, InDesign ICML, Muse, LaTeX beamer slides, PowerPoint, and several kinds of HTML/javaScript slide shows (S5, Slidy, Slideous, DZSlides, reveal.js). In contrast to most existing tools for converting Markdown to HTML, pandoc has a modular design: it consists of a set of readers, which parse text in a given format and produce a native representation of the document, and a set of writers, which convert this native representation into a target format. Thus, adding an input or output format requires only adding a reader or writer. This package contains the pandoc tool. Some uses of Pandoc require additional packages: * SVG content in PDF output requires librsvg2-bin. * YAML metadata in TeX-related output requires texlive-latex-extra. * *.hs filters not set executable requires ghc. * *.js filters not set executable requires nodejs. * *.php filters not set executable requires php. * *.pl filters not set executable requires perl. * *.py filters not set executable requires python. * *.rb filters not set executable requires ruby. * *.r filters not set executable requires r-base-core. * LaTeX output, and PDF output via PDFLaTeX, require texlive-latex-recommended. * XeLaTeX output, and PDF output via XeLaTeX, require texlive-xetex. * LuaTeX output, and PDF output via LuaTeX, require texlive-luatex. * ConTeXt output, and PDF output via ConTeXt, require context. * PDF output via wkhtmltopdf requires wkhtmltopdf. * Groff man and groff ms output, and PDF output via groff ms, require groff. * MathJax-rendered equations require libjs-mathjax. * KaTeX-rendered equations require node-katex.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install hsmarkdown using apt, apt-get and aptitude tools. Also, we showed how to update as a single package and different ways to uninstall the hsmarkdown from Kali Linux.

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