How To Install node-cli on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-cli
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is node-cli
node-cli is:
Node is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
cli is a toolkit for rapidly building command line apps - it includes:
- Full featured opts/args parser
- Plugin support for adding common options and switches
- Helper methods for working with input/output and spawning child processes
- Output colored/styled messages, progress bars or spinners
- Command auto-completion and glob support
There are three methods to install node-cli
on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-cli 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-cli
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-cli
Install node-cli Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-cli
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-cli
Install node-cli 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-cli
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-cli
How To Uninstall node-cli on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the node-cli
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-cli
Uninstall node-cli And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-cli
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-cli
Remove node-cli Configurations and Data
To remove node-cli
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-cli
Remove node-cli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-cli
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-cli
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-cli
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.