How To Install gulp on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gulp on Kali Linux.

What is gulp

gulp is:

gulp is a toolkit that helps you automate painful or time-consuming tasks in your development workflow.

Platform-agnostic - Integrations are built into all major IDEs and people are using gulp with PHP, .NET, Node.js, Java, and other platforms. Strong Ecosystem - Use npm modules to do anything you want + over 2000 curated plugins for streaming file transformations Simple - By providing only a minimal API surface, gulp is easy to learn and simple to use

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

There are three methods to install gulp on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install gulp Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gulp

Install gulp Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gulp using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gulp

Install gulp Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install gulp using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gulp

How To Uninstall gulp on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the gulp package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gulp

Uninstall gulp And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gulp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gulp

Remove gulp Configurations and Data

To remove gulp configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gulp

Remove gulp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gulp

Dependencies

gulp have the following dependencies:

• node-archy
• node-arr-flatten
• node-chalk
• node-chokidar
• node-concat-stream
• node-defaults
• node-deprecated
• node-es6-weak-map
• node-find-up
• node-for-own
• node-get-value
• node-globule
• node-gulp-util
• node-interpret
• node-is-unc-path
• node-liftoff
• node-minimist
• node-normalize-package-data
• node-orchestrator
• node-parse-json
• node-pinkie-promise
• node-pretty-hrtime
• node-semver
• node-set-blocking
• node-string-width
• node-tildify
• node-v8flags
• node-vinyl-fs
• node-y18n
• node-yargs-parser
• nodejs

References

• gulp website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gulp package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.