How To Install node-flagged-respawn on Debian 12

Learn how to install node-flagged-respawn on Debian 12 with this tutorial. node-flagged-respawn is tool for respawning node binaries when special flags are present

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-flagged-respawn on Debian 12.

What is node-flagged-respawn

node-flagged-respawn is:

This Node.js module can be useful for command-line scripts written in JavaScript. It can selectively apply flags to the interpreter, by re-spawning it and passing it only ? the required flags - the rest are passed to the script.

Flagged-respawn also handles all the edge cases such as:

  • Providing a method to determine if a respawn is needed.
  • Piping stderr/stdout from the child into the parent.
  • Making the parent process exit with the same code as the child.
  • If the child is killed, making the parent exit with the same signal.

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

There are three methods to install node-flagged-respawn 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-flagged-respawn 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-flagged-respawn using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-flagged-respawn

Install node-flagged-respawn Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-flagged-respawn

Install node-flagged-respawn 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-flagged-respawn using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-flagged-respawn

How To Uninstall node-flagged-respawn on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove node-flagged-respawn

Uninstall node-flagged-respawn And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-flagged-respawn

Remove node-flagged-respawn Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge node-flagged-respawn

Remove node-flagged-respawn configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-flagged-respawn

Dependencies

node-flagged-respawn have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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