How To Install node-safe-buffer on Debian 10

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-safe-buffer on Debian 10.

What is node-safe-buffer

node-safe-buffer is:

The goal of this package is to provide a safe replacement for the node.js Buffer. It’s a drop-in replacement for Buffer. You can use it by adding one require line to the top of your node.js modules; for example var Buffer = require(‘safe-buffer’).Buffer Existing buffer code will continue to work without issues. This package is a dependency for ava.

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

There are three methods to install node-safe-buffer on Debian 10. 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-safe-buffer 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-safe-buffer using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-safe-buffer

Install node-safe-buffer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-safe-buffer

Install node-safe-buffer 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-safe-buffer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-safe-buffer

How To Uninstall node-safe-buffer on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove node-safe-buffer

Uninstall node-safe-buffer And Its Dependencies

To uninstall node-safe-buffer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-safe-buffer

Remove node-safe-buffer Configurations and Data

To remove node-safe-buffer configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-safe-buffer

Remove node-safe-buffer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-safe-buffer

Dependencies

node-safe-buffer have the following dependencies:

• nodejs

References

• node-safe-buffer website
• node-safe-buffer on packages.debian.org

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-safe-buffer package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.