How To Install node-extglob on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-extglob
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is node-extglob
node-extglob is:
Node.js module that exports a function that takes a glob pattern as a string plus some options and returns an object with the parsed AST and the compiled output, which is a regex-compatible string that can be used for matching.
It handles negation patterns and nested patterns, and is compatible with globbing in Bash 4.3.
Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
There are three methods to install node-extglob
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-extglob 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-extglob
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-extglob
Install node-extglob Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-extglob
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-extglob
Install node-extglob 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-extglob
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-extglob
How To Uninstall node-extglob on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the node-extglob
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-extglob
Uninstall node-extglob And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-extglob
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-extglob
Remove node-extglob Configurations and Data
To remove node-extglob
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-extglob
Remove node-extglob configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-extglob
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-extglob
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-extglob
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.