How to Install and Uninstall highlight-common Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "highlight-common" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install highlight-common on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall highlight-common on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                highlight-common
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the highlight-common package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: highlight-common
Architecture: all
Version: 3.41-2build4
Priority: optional
Section: universe/devel
Source: highlight
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: David Bremner
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 945
Breaks: gtk-doc-tools (<< 1.17-2), highlight (<< 3.2), libhighlight-perl (<< 3.2)
Replaces: highlight (<< 2.9)
Filename: pool/universe/h/highlight/highlight-common_3.41-2build4_all.deb
Size: 188240
MD5sum: b56dd890c0db92e5d184d0bad1b8aec0
SHA1: cbd6e0149760a72b3bce04180e5152d97260a69f
SHA256: 0acd0bd9273eafdecfb3f124604843c8fbfb0809158664f8ae9ebbe924af82de
SHA512: 6e9f30c4870ce69773c3aac590604fbaf1690840d6e6e54466193328667fbdd86c4a8970e6902ffd1ac0401ba40e61209a4522f342acefec3cf0231eac2085c9
Homepage: http://www.andre-simon.de
Description-en: source code to formatted text converter (architecture independent files)
A utility that converts sourcecode to HTML, XHTML, RTF, LaTeX, TeX,
SVG, XML or terminal escape sequences with syntax highlighting. It
supports several programming and markup languages. Language
descriptions are configurable and support regular expressions. The
utility offers indentation and reformatting capabilities. It is
easily possible to create new language definitions and colour themes.
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These are the architecture independent files.
Description-md5: 08ae57b93f7c2207f853162d2187294f