How To Install libjs-angularjs on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libjs-angularjs on Ubuntu 18.04. libjs-angularjs is lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libjs-angularjs on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is libjs-angularjs

libjs-angularjs is:

It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding. To help you structure your application better and make it easy to test, AngularJS teaches the browser how to do dependency injection and inversion of control. It also helps with server-side communication, taming async callbacks with promises and deferreds; and make client-side navigation and deeplinking with hashbang urls or HTML5 pushState a piece of cake.

There are three methods to install libjs-angularjs on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libjs-angularjs Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libjs-angularjs

Install libjs-angularjs Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libjs-angularjs

Install libjs-angularjs 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install libjs-angularjs

How To Uninstall libjs-angularjs on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the libjs-angularjs package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libjs-angularjs

Uninstall libjs-angularjs And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libjs-angularjs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libjs-angularjs

Remove libjs-angularjs Configurations and Data

To remove libjs-angularjs configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libjs-angularjs

Remove libjs-angularjs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libjs-angularjs

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libjs-angularjs package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.