How To Install node-date-now on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-date-now
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is node-date-now
node-date-now is:
Use-case is to be able to mock out Date.now() using require interception. For example var now = require(“date-now”) var ts = now() var ts2 = Date.now() assert.equal(ts, ts2) Example of seed: var now = require(“date-now/seed”)(timeStampFromServer) // ts is in “sync” with the seed value from the server // useful if your users have their local time being a few minutes // out of your server time. var ts = now()
Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
There are three methods to install node-date-now
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-date-now 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-date-now
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-date-now
Install node-date-now Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-date-now
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-date-now
Install node-date-now 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-date-now
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-date-now
How To Uninstall node-date-now on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the node-date-now
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-date-now
Uninstall node-date-now And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-date-now
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-date-now
Remove node-date-now Configurations and Data
To remove node-date-now
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-date-now
Remove node-date-now configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-date-now
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-date-now
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-date-now
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.