How To Install node-enhanced-resolve on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-enhanced-resolve on Ubuntu 18.04. node-enhanced-resolve is Offers a async require.resolve function

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-enhanced-resolve on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is node-enhanced-resolve

node-enhanced-resolve is:

It’s highly configurable.

Features

  • plugin system
  • provide a custom filesystem
  • sync and async node.js filesystems included

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

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

sudo apt-get -y install node-enhanced-resolve

Install node-enhanced-resolve Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-enhanced-resolve

Install node-enhanced-resolve 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-enhanced-resolve using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-enhanced-resolve

How To Uninstall node-enhanced-resolve on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove node-enhanced-resolve

Uninstall node-enhanced-resolve And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-enhanced-resolve

Remove node-enhanced-resolve Configurations and Data

To remove node-enhanced-resolve configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-enhanced-resolve

Remove node-enhanced-resolve configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-enhanced-resolve

References

Summary

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