How To Install node-wikibase-cli on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-wikibase-cli on Debian 12.
What is node-wikibase-cli
node-wikibase-cli is:
wikibase-cli is a command-line interface to Wikibase instances. This tool is mostly a CLI interface to the JS modules wikibase-edit and wikibase-sdk. It was primarily developed to target Wikidata, but as then been decoupled to support any Wikibase instance.
There are three methods to install node-wikibase-cli on Debian 12. 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-wikibase-cli 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-wikibase-cli using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-wikibase-cli
Install node-wikibase-cli Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-wikibase-cli using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-wikibase-cli
Install node-wikibase-cli 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-wikibase-cli using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-wikibase-cli
How To Uninstall node-wikibase-cli on Debian 12
To uninstall only the node-wikibase-cli package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-wikibase-cli
Uninstall node-wikibase-cli And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-wikibase-cli and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-wikibase-cli
Remove node-wikibase-cli Configurations and Data
To remove node-wikibase-cli configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-wikibase-cli
Remove node-wikibase-cli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-wikibase-cli configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-wikibase-cli
Dependencies
node-wikibase-cli have the following dependencies:
- node-chalk
- node-commander
- node-copy-paste
- node-fetch
- node-lodash
- node-mkdirp
- node-opener
- node-read
- node-split
- node-through2
- node-wikibase-edit
- node-wikibase-sdk
- node-wikidata-lang
- nodejs
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-wikibase-cli package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.