How To Install libjs-terser on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libjs-terser
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is libjs-terser
libjs-terser is:
Terser is a parser, mangler, optimizer and beautifier toolkit for ECMAScript 2015 and newer (ES6+).
terser is a fork of uglify-es that retains API and CLI compatibility with uglify-es (Debian packages node-uglify-js, libjs-uglify-js, and uglifyjs).
ECMAScript 2015 (ES2015) a.k.a. ECMAScript 6 (ES6) is the 6th formal definition of JavaScript - a high-level, interpreted programming language most notably used in web browsers and in Node.js.
This package contains Terser directly usable in web browsers.
There are three methods to install libjs-terser
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libjs-terser Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libjs-terser
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libjs-terser
Install libjs-terser Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libjs-terser
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libjs-terser
Install libjs-terser Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libjs-terser
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libjs-terser
How To Uninstall libjs-terser on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the libjs-terser
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libjs-terser
Uninstall libjs-terser And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libjs-terser
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libjs-terser
Remove libjs-terser Configurations and Data
To remove libjs-terser
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libjs-terser
Remove libjs-terser configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libjs-terser
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libjs-terser
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libjs-terser
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.