program "highlight" not working normally

[catch22]

In Synaptic it shows the program "highlight" is version 3.8-2 and is not upgradeable by force.

In terminal though

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highlight --version

shows no output and no return to command prompt.
EDIT: Uninstalled via Synaptic, then downloaded 3.12 and in terminal did

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tar -jxvf highlight-3.12.tar.bz2

and then cd into the directory of the untarred did

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./configure

and got

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bash: ./configure: File or directory doesn't exist

Looks like I'm stuck here...

[catch22]

I mailed the developer at highlight, and he says the following: there indeed is a conflict with a Mint package, see: http://andre-simon.de/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=en:installation_linux

There I could see : "There is a system script called highlight which is located in a preferenced path:
mintsystem provides:

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/usr/local/bin/highlight

highlight provides:

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/usr/bin/highlight

Calling this script with the true highlight command line options will have no effect."

Can anyone tell me if this /usr/local/bin/highlight that is in Mint by default, can be deleted without serious consequence?
I would like the other highlight program to work as intended for previews in the file manager ranger http://ranger.nongnu.org/

[hut]

To work around this problem, you need to edit the configuration file for previews in ranger, ~/.config/ranger/scope.sh, find the place where "highlight" is called, and change it from "highlight" to "/usr/bin/highlight". For example, in the most recent version of scope.sh, you'd have to change line 43 from

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highlight() { command highlight "$@"; test $? = 0 -o $? = 141; }

to

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highlight() { /usr/bin/highlight "$@"; test $? = 0 -o $? = 141; }

[catch22]

To work around this problem, you need to edit the configuration file for previews in ranger, ~/.config/ranger/scope.sh, find the place where "highlight" is called, and change it from "highlight" to "/usr/bin/highlight". For example, in the most recent version of scope.sh, you'd have to change line 43 from

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highlight() { command highlight "$@"; test $? = 0 -o $? = 141; }

to

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highlight() { /usr/bin/highlight "$@"; test $? = 0 -o $? = 141; }

Thanks for the clear info, only my scope.sh doesn't have anything like what you mention; the only lines with "highlight" in them are these:

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  ;; # fall back to highlight/cat if theres no lynx/elinks
esac
case "$mimetype" in
    # Syntax highlight for text files:
    text/* | */xml)
        highlight --out-format=ansi "$path" | head -n $maxln

[hut]

To work around this problem, you need to edit the configuration file for previews in ranger, ~/.config/ranger/scope.sh, find the place where "highlight" is called, and change it from "highlight" to "/usr/bin/highlight". For example, in the most recent version of scope.sh, you'd have to change line 43 from

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highlight() { command highlight "$@"; test $? = 0 -o $? = 141; }

to

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highlight() { /usr/bin/highlight "$@"; test $? = 0 -o $? = 141; }

Thanks for the clear info, only my scope.sh doesn't have anything like what you mention; the only lines with "highlight" in them are these:

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  ;; # fall back to highlight/cat if theres no lynx/elinks
esac
case "$mimetype" in
    # Syntax highlight for text files:
    text/* | */xml)
        highlight --out-format=ansi "$path" | head -n $maxln

change

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highlight --out-format=ansi "$path" | head -n $maxln

to

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/usr/bin/highlight --out-format=ansi "$path" | head -n $maxln

[catch22]

change

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highlight --out-format=ansi "$path" | head -n $maxln

to

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/usr/bin/highlight --out-format=ansi "$path" | head -n $maxln

Thanks Hut, and sorry for the late reply; I now see I didn't subscribe to my own topic somehow and thought you left me in the cold.
I'll check it out tonight
EDIT: checked and working