How To Install node-eyes on Debian 10

Learn how to install node-eyes on Debian 10 with this tutorial. node-eyes is customizable value inspector for Node

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-eyes on Debian 10.

What is node-eyes

node-eyes is:

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

eyes is a customizable value inspector for Node, uncluttering output in the console. Also deals with circular objects in an intelligent way, and can pretty-print object literals.

There are three methods to install node-eyes on Debian 10. 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-eyes 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-eyes using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-eyes

Install node-eyes Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-eyes

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

sudo aptitude -y install node-eyes

How To Uninstall node-eyes on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove node-eyes

Uninstall node-eyes And Its Dependencies

To uninstall node-eyes and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-eyes

Remove node-eyes Configurations and Data

To remove node-eyes configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-eyes

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

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

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

Dependencies

node-eyes have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-eyes package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.