How To Install node-negotiator on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-negotiator on Ubuntu 18.04. node-negotiator is HTTP content negotiator for Node.js

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-negotiator on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is node-negotiator

node-negotiator is:

node-negotiator parses HTTP Accept headers to return preferred media types, languages, charsets, encodings from lists of available choices.

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

There are three methods to install node-negotiator on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-negotiator 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-negotiator using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-negotiator

Install node-negotiator Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-negotiator

Install node-negotiator 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-negotiator using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-negotiator

How To Uninstall node-negotiator on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove node-negotiator

Uninstall node-negotiator And Its Dependencies

To uninstall node-negotiator and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-negotiator

Remove node-negotiator Configurations and Data

To remove node-negotiator configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-negotiator

Remove node-negotiator configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-negotiator

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-negotiator package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.