How To Install node-console-control-strings on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-console-control-strings on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is node-console-control-strings
node-console-control-strings is:
This is a library for doing things like color and cursor positioning. This is a subset of both ansi and vt100. All control codes included work on both Windows & Unix-like OSes, except where noted.
Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
There are three methods to install node-console-control-strings 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-console-control-strings 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-console-control-strings using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-console-control-strings
Install node-console-control-strings Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-console-control-strings using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-console-control-strings
Install node-console-control-strings 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-console-control-strings using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-console-control-strings
How To Uninstall node-console-control-strings on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the node-console-control-strings package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-console-control-strings
Uninstall node-console-control-strings And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-console-control-strings and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-console-control-strings
Remove node-console-control-strings Configurations and Data
To remove node-console-control-strings configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-console-control-strings
Remove node-console-control-strings configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-console-control-strings configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-console-control-strings
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-console-control-strings package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
