How To Install node-vinyl on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-vinyl on Debian 9. node-vinyl is Virtual file format

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-vinyl on Debian 9.

What is node-vinyl

node-vinyl is:

Vinyl is a very simple metadata object that describes a file. When you think of a file, two attributes come to mind: path and contents. These are the main attributes on a Vinyl object. A file does not necessarily represent something on your computer??s file system. You have files on S3, FTP, Dropbox, Box, CloudThingly.io and other services. Vinyl can be used to describe files from all of these sources.

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

There are three methods to install node-vinyl on Debian 9. 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-vinyl 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-vinyl using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-vinyl

Install node-vinyl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install node-vinyl

Install node-vinyl 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install node-vinyl

How To Uninstall node-vinyl on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove node-vinyl

Uninstall node-vinyl And Its Dependencies

To uninstall node-vinyl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-vinyl

Remove node-vinyl Configurations and Data

To remove node-vinyl configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-vinyl

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

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

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

Dependencies

node-vinyl have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-vinyl package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.