How To Install node-loose-envify on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-loose-envify on Debian 9.
What is node-loose-envify
node-loose-envify is:
Performs a Javascript source-to-source transformation (transpiling), that efficiently replaces process.env environment variables with plain strings. This makes the environment variable checks faster and easier to optimize out.
Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
There are three methods to install node-loose-envify 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-loose-envify 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-loose-envify using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-loose-envify
Install node-loose-envify Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-loose-envify using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-loose-envify
Install node-loose-envify 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-loose-envify using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-loose-envify
How To Uninstall node-loose-envify on Debian 9
To uninstall only the node-loose-envify package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-loose-envify
Uninstall node-loose-envify And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-loose-envify and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-loose-envify
Remove node-loose-envify Configurations and Data
To remove node-loose-envify configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-loose-envify
Remove node-loose-envify configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-loose-envify configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-loose-envify
Dependencies
node-loose-envify have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-loose-envify package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.