How To Install nodeenv on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nodeenv on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is nodeenv
nodeenv is:
Tool to create isolated node.js environments with their own installation directories that don’t share libraries with other node.js virtual environments, similar to a Python virtualenv.
These environments can be integrated with ones created by Python’s virtualenv.
There are three methods to install nodeenv on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install nodeenv Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nodeenv using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nodeenv
Install nodeenv Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nodeenv using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nodeenv
Install nodeenv 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 nodeenv using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nodeenv
How To Uninstall nodeenv on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the nodeenv package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nodeenv
Uninstall nodeenv And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nodeenv and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nodeenv
Remove nodeenv Configurations and Data
To remove nodeenv configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nodeenv
Remove nodeenv configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nodeenv configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nodeenv
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nodeenv package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.