How To Install node-ansi-colors on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-ansi-colors on Kali Linux.

What is node-ansi-colors

node-ansi-colors is:

Ansi-colors is the official ansi styling library for gulp, and is used by hundreds of other projects, including mocha and enquirer.

A faster drop-in replacement for chalk, kleur and turbocolor

It supports nested colors and chained colors with support to toggle support on and off.

It has no dependencies and thus easier to maintain.

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

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

sudo apt-get -y install node-ansi-colors

Install node-ansi-colors Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-ansi-colors

Install node-ansi-colors 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 node-ansi-colors using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-ansi-colors

How To Uninstall node-ansi-colors on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the node-ansi-colors package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove node-ansi-colors

Uninstall node-ansi-colors And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-ansi-colors

Remove node-ansi-colors Configurations and Data

To remove node-ansi-colors configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-ansi-colors

Remove node-ansi-colors configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-ansi-colors

Dependencies

node-ansi-colors have the following dependencies:

• nodejs

References

• node-ansi-colors website

Summary

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