How To Install node-timers-browserify on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-timers-browserify on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is node-timers-browserify
node-timers-browserify is:
This library adds support for the
timersmodule to browserify. Browsers support the public methods of thetimersmodule already.
But the timers module also includes some private methods used in other
built-in Node.js modules. These are used to efficiently support a large
quantity of timers with the same timeouts by creating only a few timers under
the covers.
Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
There are three methods to install node-timers-browserify 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-timers-browserify 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-timers-browserify using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-timers-browserify
Install node-timers-browserify Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-timers-browserify using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-timers-browserify
Install node-timers-browserify 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-timers-browserify using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-timers-browserify
How To Uninstall node-timers-browserify on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the node-timers-browserify package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-timers-browserify
Uninstall node-timers-browserify And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-timers-browserify and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-timers-browserify
Remove node-timers-browserify Configurations and Data
To remove node-timers-browserify configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-timers-browserify
Remove node-timers-browserify configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-timers-browserify configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-timers-browserify
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-timers-browserify package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
