How To Install node-trust-webcrypto on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-trust-webcrypto on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is node-trust-webcrypto
node-trust-webcrypto is:
W3C’s Web Cryptography API, which defines a standard interface for performing cryptographic operations in JavaScript, such as key generation, hashing, signing, and encryption. This package implements the API for Node.js, in order to support universal crypto-dependent code required by protocols such as JOSE and OpenID Connect.
JOSE is a framework intended to provide a method to securely transfer claims (such as authorization information) between parties, e.g. in systems involving OAuth 2.0.
Connect (OIDC) is an authentication layer on top of OAuth 2.0, an authorization framework.
Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
There are three methods to install node-trust-webcrypto 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-trust-webcrypto 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-trust-webcrypto using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-trust-webcrypto
Install node-trust-webcrypto Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-trust-webcrypto using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-trust-webcrypto
Install node-trust-webcrypto 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-trust-webcrypto using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-trust-webcrypto
How To Uninstall node-trust-webcrypto on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the node-trust-webcrypto package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-trust-webcrypto
Uninstall node-trust-webcrypto And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-trust-webcrypto and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-trust-webcrypto
Remove node-trust-webcrypto Configurations and Data
To remove node-trust-webcrypto configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-trust-webcrypto
Remove node-trust-webcrypto configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-trust-webcrypto configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-trust-webcrypto
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-trust-webcrypto package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.