How To Install node-dirty on Debian 10

Learn how to install node-dirty on Debian 10 with this tutorial. node-dirty is tiny and fast key-value store for Node

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-dirty on Debian 10.

What is node-dirty

node-dirty is:

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

Dirty.js is a tiny & fast key value store with append-only disk log. It is ideal for apps with less than 1 million records. Its characteristics are:

  • the file format is newline separated JSON;
  • the database lives in the same process as the application, they share memory;
  • there is no query language, you just forEach through all records.

There are three methods to install node-dirty on Debian 10. 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-dirty 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-dirty using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-dirty

Install node-dirty Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-dirty

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

sudo aptitude -y install node-dirty

How To Uninstall node-dirty on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove node-dirty

Uninstall node-dirty And Its Dependencies

To uninstall node-dirty and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-dirty

Remove node-dirty Configurations and Data

To remove node-dirty configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-dirty

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

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

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

Dependencies

node-dirty have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-dirty package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.