How To Install node-fast-levenshtein on Debian 12

Learn how to install node-fast-levenshtein on Debian 12 with this tutorial. node-fast-levenshtein is efficient implementation of Levenshtein algorithm

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-fast-levenshtein on Debian 12.

What is node-fast-levenshtein

node-fast-levenshtein is:

In information theory, linguistics, and computer science, the Levenshtein distance is a string metric for measuring the difference between two sequences. Informally, the Levenshtein distance between two words is the minimum number of single-character edits (insertions, deletions or substitutions) required to change one word into the other.

This is pure JavaScript implementation for Node.js.

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

There are three methods to install node-fast-levenshtein on Debian 12. 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-fast-levenshtein 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-fast-levenshtein using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-fast-levenshtein

Install node-fast-levenshtein Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-fast-levenshtein

Install node-fast-levenshtein 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-fast-levenshtein using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-fast-levenshtein

How To Uninstall node-fast-levenshtein on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove node-fast-levenshtein

Uninstall node-fast-levenshtein And Its Dependencies

To uninstall node-fast-levenshtein and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-fast-levenshtein

Remove node-fast-levenshtein Configurations and Data

To remove node-fast-levenshtein configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-fast-levenshtein

Remove node-fast-levenshtein configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-fast-levenshtein

Dependencies

node-fast-levenshtein have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-fast-levenshtein package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.