How To Install node-ansi-styles on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-ansi-styles on Debian 9. node-ansi-styles is ANSI escape codes for styling strings in the terminal with Node.js

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-ansi-styles on Debian 9.

What is node-ansi-styles

node-ansi-styles is:

ansi-styles is a Node.js module which provides ANSI escape codes for styling strings in the terminal.

Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.

There are three methods to install node-ansi-styles on Debian 9. 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-ansi-styles 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-ansi-styles using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-ansi-styles

Install node-ansi-styles Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install node-ansi-styles using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install node-ansi-styles

Install node-ansi-styles 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-ansi-styles using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-ansi-styles

How To Uninstall node-ansi-styles on Debian 9

To uninstall only the node-ansi-styles package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove node-ansi-styles

Uninstall node-ansi-styles And Its Dependencies

To uninstall node-ansi-styles and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-ansi-styles

Remove node-ansi-styles Configurations and Data

To remove node-ansi-styles configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-ansi-styles

Remove node-ansi-styles configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove node-ansi-styles configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-ansi-styles

Dependencies

node-ansi-styles have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-ansi-styles package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.