How to Install and Uninstall highlight Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 17,2024

You can also install and uninstall the highlight on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "highlight" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install highlight on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "highlight" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall highlight on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                highlight
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the highlight package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: highlight
Source: highlight (3.41-2)
Version: 3.41-2+b6
Installed-Size: 1084
Maintainer: David Bremner
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4), liblua5.2-0 (>= 5.2.4), libstdc++6 (>= 11), highlight-common (= 3.41-2)
Description: Universal source code to formatted text converter
Description-md5: 41582079c56affb2a98f081f9b1e9702
Homepage: http://www.andre-simon.de
Tag: devel::prettyprint, interface::commandline, role::program,
scope::utility, use::converting, use::text-formatting,
works-with-format::html, works-with-format::tex,
works-with::software:source, works-with::text
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/h/highlight/highlight_3.41-2+b6_amd64.deb
Size: 381372
MD5sum: 301f1e1440b4ffd4f5293358e2bc1a9c
SHA256: ea78e6d42dfb4ddeb96e7685d332282f46b287c3820a133ec0707bb413142548