How To Install node-less on Debian 10

Learn how to install node-less on Debian 10 with this tutorial. node-less is LESS CSS meta-language - compiler and Node module

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-less on Debian 10.

What is node-less

node-less is:

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

LESS is a meta-language on top of CSS that??s used to describe the style of a document cleanly and structurally, with more power than flat CSS allows. LESS both provides a simpler, more elegant syntax for CSS and implements various features that are useful for creating manageable stylesheets.

less.js is the reference implementation of LESS, written in JavaScript.

This package contains less.js usable as Node module, and the script lessc for statically compiling LESS data into CSS.

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

sudo apt-get -y install node-less

Install node-less Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-less

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

sudo aptitude -y install node-less

How To Uninstall node-less on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove node-less

Uninstall node-less And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-less

Remove node-less Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge node-less

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

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

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

Dependencies

node-less have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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