How To Install node-log4js on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-log4js
on Debian 11.
What is node-log4js
node-log4js is:
Logging support for Node.js based on the log4js Javascript (browser/client) framework.
Supported features:
- coloured console logging
- replacement of node's console.log functions (optional)
- file appender, with log rolling based on file size
- SMTP appender
- GELF appender
- hook.io appender
- multiprocess appender (useful when you've got worker processes)
- a logger for connect/express servers
- configurable log message layout/patterns
- different log levels for different log categories (make some parts
of your app log as DEBUG, others only ERRORS, etc.)
There are three methods to install node-log4js
on Debian 11. 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-log4js 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-log4js
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-log4js
Install node-log4js Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-log4js
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-log4js
Install node-log4js 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-log4js
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-log4js
How To Uninstall node-log4js on Debian 11
To uninstall only the node-log4js
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-log4js
Uninstall node-log4js And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-log4js
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-log4js
Remove node-log4js Configurations and Data
To remove node-log4js
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-log4js
Remove node-log4js configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-log4js
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-log4js
Dependencies
node-log4js have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-log4js
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.