How To Install node-serve-index on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-serve-index
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is node-serve-index
node-serve-index is:
This package provides a middleware for serving a directory index at the path built from the current URL of the HTTP Request and a configurable public local path.
Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
There are three methods to install node-serve-index
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-serve-index 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-serve-index
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-serve-index
Install node-serve-index Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-serve-index
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-serve-index
Install node-serve-index 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-serve-index
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-serve-index
How To Uninstall node-serve-index on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the node-serve-index
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-serve-index
Uninstall node-serve-index And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-serve-index
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-serve-index
Remove node-serve-index Configurations and Data
To remove node-serve-index
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-serve-index
Remove node-serve-index configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-serve-index
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-serve-index
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-serve-index
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.