How To Install node-console-control-strings on Debian 10

Learn how to install node-console-control-strings on Debian 10 with this tutorial. node-console-control-strings is cross-platform tested terminal/console command strings

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-console-control-strings on Debian 10.

What is node-console-control-strings

node-console-control-strings is:

This is a library for doing things like color and cursor positioning. This is a subset of both ansi and vt100. All control codes included work on both Windows & Unix-like OSes, except where noted.

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

There are three methods to install node-console-control-strings on Debian 10. 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-console-control-strings 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-console-control-strings using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-console-control-strings

Install node-console-control-strings Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-console-control-strings

Install node-console-control-strings 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-console-control-strings using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-console-control-strings

How To Uninstall node-console-control-strings on Debian 10

To uninstall only the node-console-control-strings package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove node-console-control-strings

Uninstall node-console-control-strings And Its Dependencies

To uninstall node-console-control-strings and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-console-control-strings

Remove node-console-control-strings Configurations and Data

To remove node-console-control-strings configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-console-control-strings

Remove node-console-control-strings configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-console-control-strings

Dependencies

node-console-control-strings have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-console-control-strings package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.