How To Install node-preserve on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-preserve on Kali Linux.

What is node-preserve

node-preserve is:

Temporarily substitute tokens in the given string with placeholders, then put them back after transforming the string. Useful for protecting tokens, like templates in HTML, from being mutated when the string is transformed in some way, like from a formatter/beautifier.

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

There are three methods to install node-preserve on Kali Linux. 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-preserve 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-preserve using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-preserve

Install node-preserve Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-preserve

Install node-preserve Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install node-preserve

How To Uninstall node-preserve on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove node-preserve

Uninstall node-preserve And Its Dependencies

To uninstall node-preserve and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-preserve

Remove node-preserve Configurations and Data

To remove node-preserve configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-preserve

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

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

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

Dependencies

node-preserve have the following dependencies:

• nodejs

References

• node-preserve website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-preserve package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.