How To Install node-quick-lru on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-quick-lru on Debian 11. node-quick-lru is Simple Least Recently Used (LRU) cache

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-quick-lru on Debian 11.

What is `node-quick-lru`

node-quick-lru is:

Useful when you need to cache something and limit memory usage. Inspired by the hashlru algorithm, but instead uses Map to support keys of any type, not just strings, and values can be undefined.

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

There are three methods to install node-quick-lru 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-quick-lru 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-quick-lru using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-quick-lru

Install node-quick-lru Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-quick-lru

Install node-quick-lru 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-quick-lru using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-quick-lru

How To Uninstall node-quick-lru on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove node-quick-lru

Uninstall node-quick-lru And Its Dependencies

To uninstall node-quick-lru and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-quick-lru

Remove node-quick-lru Configurations and Data

To remove node-quick-lru configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-quick-lru

Remove node-quick-lru configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-quick-lru

Dependencies

node-quick-lru have the following dependencies:

nodejs

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-quick-lru package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.