How To Install minify on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install minify
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is minify
minify is:
/usr/bin/minify is a CLI implementation of the github.com/tdewolff/minify Go library package.
It provides HTML5, CSS3, JS, JSON, SVG and XML minifiers.
Minification is the process of removing bytes from a file (such as whitespace) without changing its output and therefore shrinking its size and speeding up transmission over the Internet and possibly parsing. The implemented minifiers are high performance and streaming, which implies O(n).
There are three methods to install minify
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install minify Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install minify
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install minify
Install minify Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install minify
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install minify
Install minify 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 minify
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install minify
How To Uninstall minify on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the minify
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove minify
Uninstall minify And Its Dependencies
To uninstall minify
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove minify
Remove minify Configurations and Data
To remove minify
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge minify
Remove minify configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove minify
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge minify
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install minify
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.