How to Install and Uninstall wikipedia2text Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: January 23,2025

1. Install "wikipedia2text" package

This guide let you learn how to install wikipedia2text on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                wikipedia2text
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "wikipedia2text" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall wikipedia2text on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the wikipedia2text package on Kali Linux

Package: wikipedia2text
Version: 0.14-4
Installed-Size: 32
Maintainer: Axel Beckert
Architecture: all
Depends: liburi-perl, lynx | www-browser
Recommends: less | most
Suggests: elinks | links2 | links | lynx | w3m
Size: 10908
SHA256: 1427f059c6edbbf477fa12b396e7719c437cb8733b8e47f7b0566a6e66beaa1a
SHA1: d0b9318ecdff727c7b9111eaace965fd94fbe580
MD5sum: af723325b287aa9cbd4150ef8ff8f07c
Description: displays Wikipedia articles on the command line
This script fetches Wikipedia articles (currently supports around 30
Wikipedia languages) and displays them as plain text in a pager or
just sends the text to standard out. Alternatively it opens the
Wikipedia article in a (possibly GUI) web browser or just shows the
URL of the appropriate Wikipedia article.
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://github.com/chrisbra/wikipedia2text
Tag: implemented-in::shell, interface::commandline, protocol::http,
role::program, use::text-formatting, use::viewing,
works-with-format::html, works-with::text
Section: text
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/w/wikipedia2text/wikipedia2text_0.14-4_all.deb