How To Install terser on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install terser on Debian 12.
What is terser
terser is:
Terser is a parser, mangler, optimizer and beautifier toolkit for ECMAScript 2015 and newer (ES6+).
terser is a fork of uglify-es that retains API and CLI compatibility with uglify-es (Debian packages node-uglify-js, libjs-uglify-js, and uglifyjs).
ECMAScript 2015 (ES2015) a.k.a. ECMAScript 6 (ES6) is the 6th formal definition of JavaScript - a high-level, interpreted programming language most notably used in web browsers and in Node.js.
This package provides command-line tool terser.
There are three methods to install terser 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 terser Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install terser using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install terser
Install terser Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install terser using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install terser
Install terser 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 terser using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install terser
How To Uninstall terser on Debian 12
To uninstall only the terser package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove terser
Uninstall terser And Its Dependencies
To uninstall terser and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove terser
Remove terser Configurations and Data
To remove terser configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge terser
Remove terser configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove terser configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge terser
Dependencies
terser have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install terser package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
