How To Install node-columnify on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is node-columnify

node-columnify is:

Create text-based columns suitable for console output from objects or arrays of objects.

Columns are automatically resized to fit the content of the largest cell. Each cell will be padded with spaces to fill the available space and ensure column contents are left-aligned.

Designed to handle sensible wrapping in npm search results.

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

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

sudo apt-get -y install node-columnify

Install node-columnify Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-columnify

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

sudo aptitude -y install node-columnify

How To Uninstall node-columnify on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove node-columnify

Uninstall node-columnify And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-columnify

Remove node-columnify Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge node-columnify

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

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

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

Dependencies

node-columnify have the following dependencies:

• node-strip-ansi
• node-wcwidth.js
• nodejs

References

• node-columnify website

Summary

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