How To Install node-encodeurl on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-encodeurl on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is node-encodeurl
node-encodeurl is:
Encode a URL to a percent-encoded form, excluding already-encoded sequences
Encodeurl will take an already-encoded URL and encode all the non-URL code points (as UTF-8 byte sequences).
This encode is meant to be “safe” and does not throw errors. It will try as hard as it can to properly encode the given URL, including replacing any raw, unpaired surrogate pairs with the Unicode replacement character prior to encoding.
Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
There are three methods to install node-encodeurl 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-encodeurl 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-encodeurl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-encodeurl
Install node-encodeurl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-encodeurl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-encodeurl
Install node-encodeurl 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-encodeurl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-encodeurl
How To Uninstall node-encodeurl on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the node-encodeurl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-encodeurl
Uninstall node-encodeurl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-encodeurl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-encodeurl
Remove node-encodeurl Configurations and Data
To remove node-encodeurl configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-encodeurl
Remove node-encodeurl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-encodeurl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-encodeurl
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-encodeurl package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
