How To Install node-debug on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-debug
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is node-debug
node-debug is:
node-debug provides a small debugging utility for Node.js modules.
With this module you simply invoke the exported function to generate your debug function, passing it a name which will determine if a noop function is returned, or a decorated console.error, so all of the console format string goodies you’re used to work fine. A unique color is selected per-function for visibility.
Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
There are three methods to install node-debug
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-debug 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-debug
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-debug
Install node-debug Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-debug
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-debug
Install node-debug 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-debug
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-debug
How To Uninstall node-debug on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the node-debug
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-debug
Uninstall node-debug And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-debug
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-debug
Remove node-debug Configurations and Data
To remove node-debug
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-debug
Remove node-debug configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-debug
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-debug
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-debug
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.