How To Install node-ansi on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-ansi
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is node-ansi
node-ansi is:
node-ansi is a module for Node.js that provides an easy-to-use API for writing ANSI escape codes to Stream instances. ANSI escape codes are used to do fancy things in a terminal window, like render text in colors, delete characters, lines, the entire window, or hide and show the cursor, and lots more.
Node.js is an event-based server-side javascript engine.
There are three methods to install node-ansi
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 node-ansi 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
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-ansi
Install node-ansi Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-ansi
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-ansi
Install node-ansi 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 node-ansi
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-ansi
How To Uninstall node-ansi on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the node-ansi
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-ansi
Uninstall node-ansi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-ansi
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-ansi
Remove node-ansi Configurations and Data
To remove node-ansi
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-ansi
Remove node-ansi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-ansi
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-ansi
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-ansi
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.