How To Install node-turbolinks on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-turbolinks on Kali Linux. node-turbolinks is Turbolinks makes navigating your web application faster

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-turbolinks on Kali Linux.

node-turbolinks is:

Get the performance benefits of a single-page application without the added complexity of a client-side JavaScript framework. Use HTML to render your views on the server side and link to pages as usual. When you follow a link, Turbolinks automatically fetches the page, swaps in its, and merges its, all without incurring the cost of a full page load.

Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.

There are three methods to install node-turbolinks on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install node-turbolinks using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-turbolinks

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install node-turbolinks using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install node-turbolinks

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install node-turbolinks using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-turbolinks

To uninstall only the node-turbolinks package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove node-turbolinks

To uninstall node-turbolinks and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-turbolinks

To remove node-turbolinks configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-turbolinks

We can use the following command to remove node-turbolinks configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-turbolinks

Dependencies

node-turbolinks have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-turbolinks package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.