How To Install node-dashdash on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-dashdash on Debian 11. node-dashdash is light, featureful and explicit option parsing library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-dashdash on Debian 11.

What is node-dashdash

node-dashdash is:

The author of the library gives this rationale: the other option parsing libraries are one of too loosey goosey (not explicit), too big/too many deps, or ill specified.

This library is a dependency for sshpk, a library to parse, convert, fingerprint and use SSH keys (both public and private) in pure nodejs.

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

There are three methods to install node-dashdash on Debian 11. 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-dashdash 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-dashdash using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-dashdash

Install node-dashdash Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-dashdash

Install node-dashdash 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install node-dashdash

How To Uninstall node-dashdash on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove node-dashdash

Uninstall node-dashdash And Its Dependencies

To uninstall node-dashdash and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-dashdash

Remove node-dashdash Configurations and Data

To remove node-dashdash configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-dashdash

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

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

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

Dependencies

node-dashdash have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-dashdash package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.