How To Install node-delve on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-delve on Debian 9. node-delve is delve recursively into a value to retrieve a property

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-delve on Debian 9.

What is node-delve

node-delve is:

This node module delves recursively into a value to retrieve a property and does not give an error.

For anybody using the fantastic lodash library, you can find similar functionality to delve with the get function.

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

There are three methods to install node-delve on Debian 9. 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-delve 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-delve using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-delve

Install node-delve Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-delve

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

sudo aptitude -y install node-delve

How To Uninstall node-delve on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove node-delve

Uninstall node-delve And Its Dependencies

To uninstall node-delve and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-delve

Remove node-delve Configurations and Data

To remove node-delve configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-delve

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

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

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

Dependencies

node-delve have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-delve package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.