How To Install duktape on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install duktape on Debian 9.
What is duktape
duktape is:
Duktape is an embeddable Javascript engine, with a focus on portability and compact footprint.
Duktape is easy to integrate into a C/C++ project: add duktape.c, duktape.h, and duk_config.h to your build, and use the Duktape API to call Ecmascript functions from C code and vice versa.
The main features are - Embeddable, portable, compact: can run on platforms with 256kB flash and 64kB system RAM - Ecmascript E5/E5.1 compliant, some features borrowed from Ecmascript E6 - Khronos/ES6 TypedArray and Node.js Buffer bindings - Built-in debugger - Built-in regular expression engine - Built-in Unicode support - Minimal platform dependencies - Combined reference counting and mark-and-sweep garbage collection with finalization - Custom features like coroutines, built-in logging framework, and built-in CommonJS-based module loading framework - Property virtualization using a subset of Ecmascript E6 Proxy object - Bytecode dump/load for caching compiled functions
This package contains a commandline duk interpreter
There are three methods to install duktape 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 duktape Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install duktape using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install duktape
Install duktape Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install duktape using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install duktape
Install duktape 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 duktape using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install duktape
How To Uninstall duktape on Debian 9
To uninstall only the duktape package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove duktape
Uninstall duktape And Its Dependencies
To uninstall duktape and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove duktape
Remove duktape Configurations and Data
To remove duktape configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge duktape
Remove duktape configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove duktape configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge duktape
Dependencies
duktape have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install duktape package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.