How To Install node-channels on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-channels on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is node-channels
node-channels is:
Channels keeps your messages in order for different endpoints (channels) of your Node.js application.
In Etherpad Channels is used to ensure changes for specific pads have their own channel (gateway) and changesets (planes) are assigned to specific channels (gateways).
Channels is useful if you need to have lots of different I/O operations on different endpoints that you need to keep in order.
There are three methods to install node-channels 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-channels 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-channels using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-channels
Install node-channels Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-channels using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-channels
Install node-channels 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-channels using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-channels
How To Uninstall node-channels on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the node-channels package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-channels
Uninstall node-channels And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-channels and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-channels
Remove node-channels Configurations and Data
To remove node-channels configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-channels
Remove node-channels configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-channels configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-channels
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-channels package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.