How To Install node-emoji on Debian 12

Learn how to install node-emoji on Debian 12 with this tutorial. node-emoji is simple emoji support for node.js

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-emoji on Debian 12.

What is node-emoji

node-emoji is:

Node.js module to encode and decode emoji ideograms and smileys from their aliases or colon-sequences.

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

There are three methods to install node-emoji on Debian 12. 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-emoji 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-emoji using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-emoji

Install node-emoji Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-emoji

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

sudo aptitude -y install node-emoji

How To Uninstall node-emoji on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove node-emoji

Uninstall node-emoji And Its Dependencies

To uninstall node-emoji and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-emoji

Remove node-emoji Configurations and Data

To remove node-emoji configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-emoji

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

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

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

Dependencies

node-emoji have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-emoji package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.