How To Install node-dirty on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-dirty on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. 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-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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-dirty package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.