pygments: Generic syntax highlighter¶

Description¶

Pygments is a syntax highlighting package written in Python.

It is a generic syntax highlighter suitable for use in code hosting, forums, wikis or other applications that need to prettify source code. Highlights are:

a wide range of over 300 languages and other text formats is supported
special attention is paid to details, increasing quality by a fair amount
support for new languages and formats are added easily
a number of output formats, presently HTML, LaTeX, RTF, SVG, all image formats that PIL supports and ANSI sequences
it is usable as a command-line tool and as a library

License¶

BSD-2-Clause

Upstream Contact¶

https://pypi.org/project/Pygments/

Type¶

standard

Dependencies¶

$(PYTHON)
pip: Tool for installing and managing Python packages

Version Information¶

package-version.txt:

2.18.0

version_requirements.txt:

pygments >=2.12

Equivalent System Packages¶

Arch Linux

$ sudo pacman -S python-pygments

conda-forge

$ conda install pygments

Debian/Ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get install python3-pygments

Fedora/Redhat/CentOS

$ sudo yum install python3-pygments

Gentoo Linux

$ sudo emerge dev-python/pygments

Homebrew

$ brew install pygments

MacPorts

$ sudo port install py-pygments

openSUSE

$ sudo zypper install python3\$\{PYTHON_MINOR\}-pygments

Void Linux

$ sudo xbps-install python3-Pygments

See https://repology.org/project/pygments/versions, https://repology.org/project/python:pygments/versions

If the system package is installed and if the (experimental) option --enable-system-site-packages is passed to ./configure, then ./configure will check if the system package can be used.