How To Install node-safe-buffer on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-safe-buffer on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 forBuffer. You can use it by adding onerequireline 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 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-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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-safe-buffer package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
