How To Install node-faye-websocket on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-faye-websocket on Debian 9.
What is node-faye-websocket
node-faye-websocket is:
This is a general-purpose WebSocket implementation extracted from the Faye project. It provides classes for easily building WebSocket servers and clients in Node. It does not provide a server itself, but rather makes it easy to handle WebSocket connections within an existing Node application. It does not provide any abstraction other than the standard WebSocket API.
It also provides an abstraction for handling EventSource connections, which are one-way connections that allow the server to push data to the client. They are based on streaming HTTP responses and can be easier to access via proxies than WebSockets.
Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
There are three methods to install node-faye-websocket 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-faye-websocket 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-faye-websocket using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-faye-websocket
Install node-faye-websocket Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-faye-websocket using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-faye-websocket
Install node-faye-websocket 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-faye-websocket using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-faye-websocket
How To Uninstall node-faye-websocket on Debian 9
To uninstall only the node-faye-websocket package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-faye-websocket
Uninstall node-faye-websocket And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-faye-websocket and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-faye-websocket
Remove node-faye-websocket Configurations and Data
To remove node-faye-websocket configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-faye-websocket
Remove node-faye-websocket configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-faye-websocket configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-faye-websocket
Dependencies
node-faye-websocket have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-faye-websocket package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.