How To Install node-buffers on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is node-buffers

node-buffers is:

The buffers module allows you to treat a collection of Buffers as a single contiguous partially mutable Buffer.

Where possible, operations execute without creating a new Buffer and copying everything over.

buffers is a cleaner more Buffery rehash of bufferlist.

This package contains the buffers module for Node.js

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

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

sudo apt-get -y install node-buffers

Install node-buffers Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-buffers

Install node-buffers 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-buffers using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-buffers

How To Uninstall node-buffers on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove node-buffers

Uninstall node-buffers And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-buffers

Remove node-buffers Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge node-buffers

Remove node-buffers configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-buffers

Dependencies

node-buffers have the following dependencies:

• nodejs

References

• node-buffers website

Summary

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