How To Install node-urlgrey on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-urlgrey on Ubuntu 18.04. node-urlgrey is urlgrey is a library for url querying and manipulation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-urlgrey on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is node-urlgrey

node-urlgrey is:

urlgrey is a library for url manipulation. It’s a chainable/fluent interface that makes a number of methods available for querying different aspects of a url, and even modifying it to create new urls.

Most methods are named after different parts of the url and allow you to read that part from the current url if you don’t pass any parameters, or they allow you to generate a new url with a change to that part in the current url if you do pass a parameter.

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

There are three methods to install node-urlgrey 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-urlgrey 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-urlgrey using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-urlgrey

Install node-urlgrey Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-urlgrey

Install node-urlgrey 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-urlgrey using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-urlgrey

How To Uninstall node-urlgrey on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove node-urlgrey

Uninstall node-urlgrey And Its Dependencies

To uninstall node-urlgrey and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-urlgrey

Remove node-urlgrey Configurations and Data

To remove node-urlgrey configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-urlgrey

Remove node-urlgrey configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-urlgrey package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.