How To Install node-buffers on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-buffers on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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 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 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 node-buffers using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-buffers
How To Uninstall node-buffers on Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-buffers package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
