How To Install node-resolve-pkg on Ubuntu 18.04

Introduction

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

What is node-resolve-pkg

node-resolve-pkg is:

Some packages like CLI tools and grunt tasks don’t have a entry point, like "main": "foo.js" in package.json, resulting in them not being resolvable by require.resolve(). Unlike require.resolve(), this module also resolves packages without an entry point, returns null instead of throwing when the module can’t be found, and resolves from process.cwd() instead __dirname by default.

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

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

sudo apt-get -y install node-resolve-pkg

Install node-resolve-pkg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-resolve-pkg

Install node-resolve-pkg 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-resolve-pkg using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-resolve-pkg

How To Uninstall node-resolve-pkg on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove node-resolve-pkg

Uninstall node-resolve-pkg And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-resolve-pkg

Remove node-resolve-pkg Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge node-resolve-pkg

Remove node-resolve-pkg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-resolve-pkg

References

• node-resolve-pkg website
• node-resolve-pkg on packages.ubuntu.com

Summary

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