Jekyll is a parsing engine bundled as a ruby gem used to build static websites from dynamic components such as templates, partials, liquid code, markdown, etc. Jekyll is known as “a simple, blog aware, static site generator”.
Before installing jekyll, you must install Ruby. To install Ruby on linux, you can go through How to install Ruby on Linux
Now to install Jekyll, entered the following command.
gem install jekyll
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