How To Install node-electron-to-chromium on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-electron-to-chromium on Ubuntu 18.04. node-electron-to-chromium is Provides a list of electron-to-chromium version mappings

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-electron-to-chromium on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is node-electron-to-chromium

node-electron-to-chromium is:

This repository provides a mapping of Electron versions to the Chromium version that it uses.

This package is used in Browserslist, so you can use e.g. electron >= 1.4 in Autoprefixer, Stylelint, babel-preset-env and eslint-plugin-compat.

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

There are three methods to install node-electron-to-chromium 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-electron-to-chromium 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-electron-to-chromium using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-electron-to-chromium

Install node-electron-to-chromium Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-electron-to-chromium

Install node-electron-to-chromium 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-electron-to-chromium using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-electron-to-chromium

How To Uninstall node-electron-to-chromium on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the node-electron-to-chromium package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove node-electron-to-chromium

Uninstall node-electron-to-chromium And Its Dependencies

To uninstall node-electron-to-chromium and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-electron-to-chromium

Remove node-electron-to-chromium Configurations and Data

To remove node-electron-to-chromium configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-electron-to-chromium

Remove node-electron-to-chromium configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-electron-to-chromium

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-electron-to-chromium package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.