How To Install node-cookie-signature on Debian 12

Learn how to install node-cookie-signature on Debian 12 with this tutorial. node-cookie-signature is Sign and unsign cookies using hmac - module for Node.js

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-cookie-signature on Debian 12.

node-cookie-signature is:

Small module to help signing and unsigning strings using hmac signature with a secret.

It is used by connect middleware to secure session cookies.

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

There are three methods to install node-cookie-signature on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install node-cookie-signature

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-cookie-signature

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-cookie-signature using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-cookie-signature

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

sudo apt-get remove node-cookie-signature

To uninstall node-cookie-signature and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-cookie-signature

To remove node-cookie-signature configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-cookie-signature

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-cookie-signature

Dependencies

node-cookie-signature have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-cookie-signature package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.