How To Install node-channels on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-channels on Debian 9. node-channels is Event channels in Node.js

Introduction

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

What is node-channels

node-channels is:

Channels keeps your messages in order for different endpoints (channels) of your Node.js application.

In Etherpad Channels is used to ensure changes for specific pads have their own channel (gateway) and changesets (planes) are assigned to specific channels (gateways).

Channels is useful if you need to have lots of different I/O operations on different endpoints that you need to keep in order.

There are three methods to install node-channels 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-channels 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-channels using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-channels

Install node-channels Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-channels

Install node-channels 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-channels using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-channels

How To Uninstall node-channels on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove node-channels

Uninstall node-channels And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-channels

Remove node-channels Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge node-channels

Remove node-channels configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-channels

Dependencies

node-channels have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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