How To Install node-htmlescape on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-htmlescape
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is node-htmlescape
node-htmlescape is:
This module escape a string to be safe for use in html particularly inside a script tag.
In programming languages escape sequences are used in character literals and string literals, to express characters which are not printable or clash with the syntax of characters or strings.
This module is a dependency of browserify, a tool that allows one to write Node.js-style modules that compile for use in the browser.
Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
There are three methods to install node-htmlescape
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-htmlescape 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-htmlescape
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-htmlescape
Install node-htmlescape Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-htmlescape
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-htmlescape
Install node-htmlescape 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install node-htmlescape
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-htmlescape
How To Uninstall node-htmlescape on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the node-htmlescape
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-htmlescape
Uninstall node-htmlescape And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-htmlescape
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-htmlescape
Remove node-htmlescape Configurations and Data
To remove node-htmlescape
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-htmlescape
Remove node-htmlescape configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-htmlescape
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-htmlescape
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-htmlescape
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.