How To Install node-sinon-chai on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-sinon-chai on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is node-sinon-chai
node-sinon-chai is:
Chai is a BDD / TDD assertion library for nodejs and the browser that can be delightfully paired with any javascript testing framework.
Sinon provides test framework agnostic JavaScript test spies, stubs and mocks.
This library is a build dependency of node-chokidar.
Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
There are three methods to install node-sinon-chai 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-sinon-chai 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-sinon-chai using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-sinon-chai
Install node-sinon-chai Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-sinon-chai using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-sinon-chai
Install node-sinon-chai 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-sinon-chai using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-sinon-chai
How To Uninstall node-sinon-chai on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the node-sinon-chai package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-sinon-chai
Uninstall node-sinon-chai And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-sinon-chai and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-sinon-chai
Remove node-sinon-chai Configurations and Data
To remove node-sinon-chai configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-sinon-chai
Remove node-sinon-chai configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-sinon-chai configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-sinon-chai
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-sinon-chai package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
