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Information about the package, highlight, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The highlight package is designed for, Universal source code to formatted text converter.


Package Name:

highlight

Summary:

Universal source code to formatted text converter

Description:

A utility that converts sourcecode to HTML, XHTML, RTF, LaTeX, TeX, XSL-FO, XML or ANSI 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.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

3.8

Release:

1.el6

Size:

535 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv3



Handy Yum Commands for highlight


Control the highlight package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install highlight

This command will install highlight on the server.

yum remove highlight

This command will un-install highlight on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove highlight, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove highlight

This command will un-install highlight on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove highlight when using the -y flag.

yum update highlight

This command will update highlight to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove highlight, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update highlight

This command will update highlight to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove highlight when using the -y flag.

yum info highlight

This command will show you core information about the highlight package.

yum deplist highlight

This command will show you the dependencies for highlight. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update highlight

This command will check if there is an update waiting on highlight. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.