How To Install node-acorn on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-acorn on Debian 12.
What is node-acorn
node-acorn is:
Acorn is a tiny, fast JavaScript parser written in JavaScript.
acorn.js defines the main parser interface. The library also comes with a error-tolerant parser and an abstract syntax tree walker, defined in other files.
This package contains the acorn module for Node.js.
This package contains also small pluggins packages acorn-bigint, acorn-dynamic-import, acorn-jsx, acorn-node, acorn-private-class-elements, acorn-class-fields, acorn-static-class-features, acorn-export-ns-from, acorn-numeric-separator, acorn-private-methods.
Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
There are three methods to install node-acorn on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install node-acorn Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install node-acorn using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-acorn
Install node-acorn Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-acorn using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-acorn
Install node-acorn 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install node-acorn using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-acorn
How To Uninstall node-acorn on Debian 12
To uninstall only the node-acorn package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-acorn
Uninstall node-acorn And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-acorn and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-acorn
Remove node-acorn Configurations and Data
To remove node-acorn configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-acorn
Remove node-acorn configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-acorn configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-acorn
Dependencies
node-acorn have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-acorn package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
