How To Install node-typescript on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-typescript on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is node-typescript
node-typescript is:
TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript. It adds optional types, classes, and modules to JavaScript, supports tools for large-scale JavaScript applications for any browser, for any host, on any OS and compiles to readable, standards-based JavaScript.
Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
There are three methods to install node-typescript 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-typescript 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-typescript using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-typescript
Install node-typescript Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-typescript using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-typescript
Install node-typescript 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-typescript using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-typescript
How To Uninstall node-typescript on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the node-typescript package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-typescript
Uninstall node-typescript And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-typescript and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-typescript
Remove node-typescript Configurations and Data
To remove node-typescript configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-typescript
Remove node-typescript configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-typescript configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-typescript
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-typescript package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
