How To Install node-terser on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-terser
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is node-terser
node-terser is:
Terser is a parser, mangler, optimizer and beautifier toolkit for ECMAScript 2015 and newer (ES6+).
terser is a fork of uglify-es that retains API and CLI compatibility with uglify-es (Debian packages node-uglify-js, libjs-uglify-js, and uglifyjs).
ECMAScript 2015 (ES2015) a.k.a. ECMAScript 6 (ES6) is the 6th formal definition of JavaScript - a high-level, interpreted programming language most notably used in web browsers and in Node.js.
This package contains Terser usable with Node.js.
There are three methods to install node-terser
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-terser 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-terser
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-terser
Install node-terser Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-terser
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-terser
Install node-terser 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-terser
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-terser
How To Uninstall node-terser on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the node-terser
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-terser
Uninstall node-terser And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-terser
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-terser
Remove node-terser Configurations and Data
To remove node-terser
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-terser
Remove node-terser configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-terser
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-terser
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-terser
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.