How To Install node-mdn-data on Debian 12

Learn how to install node-mdn-data on Debian 12 with this tutorial. node-mdn-data is Open Web data by the Mozilla Developer Network

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-mdn-data on Debian 12.

What is node-mdn-data

node-mdn-data is:

This module maintained by the MDN team at Mozilla contains general data for Web technologies. This data is used in MDN documentation, to build information boxes or sidebar navigation.

External tools have started to make use of this data as well. For example, the CSSTree CSS parser.

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

There are three methods to install node-mdn-data 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.

Install node-mdn-data 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-mdn-data using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-mdn-data

Install node-mdn-data Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-mdn-data

Install node-mdn-data 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-mdn-data using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-mdn-data

How To Uninstall node-mdn-data on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove node-mdn-data

Uninstall node-mdn-data And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-mdn-data

Remove node-mdn-data Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge node-mdn-data

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

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-mdn-data

Dependencies

node-mdn-data have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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