How To Install node-negotiator on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-negotiator on Debian 9. node-negotiator is HTTP content negotiator for Node.js

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-negotiator on Debian 9.

What is node-negotiator

node-negotiator is:

node-negotiator parses HTTP Accept headers to return preferred media types, languages, charsets, encodings from lists of available choices.

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

There are three methods to install node-negotiator on Debian 9. 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-negotiator 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-negotiator using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-negotiator

Install node-negotiator Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-negotiator

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

sudo aptitude -y install node-negotiator

How To Uninstall node-negotiator on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove node-negotiator

Uninstall node-negotiator And Its Dependencies

To uninstall node-negotiator and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-negotiator

Remove node-negotiator Configurations and Data

To remove node-negotiator configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-negotiator

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

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

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

Dependencies

node-negotiator have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-negotiator package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.