How To Install node-stack-utils on Debian 10

Learn how to install node-stack-utils on Debian 10 with this tutorial. node-stack-utils is Captures and cleans stack traces

Introduction

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

What is node-stack-utils

node-stack-utils is:

This modules provides API for working with nodejs stack traces. Ones could create new stack traces instance simulating for instance deep call of function, or clean existing stack trace. This API includes function to call up and down on stack trace.

In computing, a stack trace (also called stack backtrace or stack traceback) is a report of the active stack frames at a certain point in time during the execution of a program. Programmers commonly use stack tracing during interactive and post-mortem debugging. A stack trace allows tracking the sequence of nested functions called - up to the point where the stack trace is generated. In a post-mortem scenario this extends up to the function where the failure occurred

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

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

sudo apt-get -y install node-stack-utils

Install node-stack-utils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-stack-utils

Install node-stack-utils 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-stack-utils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-stack-utils

How To Uninstall node-stack-utils on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove node-stack-utils

Uninstall node-stack-utils And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-stack-utils

Remove node-stack-utils Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge node-stack-utils

Remove node-stack-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-stack-utils

Dependencies

node-stack-utils have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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