How To Install node-eyes on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-eyes on Debian 9.
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 9. 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 9
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 9, 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 9 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 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.