How To Install yarnpkg on Debian 10

Learn how to install yarnpkg on Debian 10 with this tutorial. yarnpkg is Fast, reliable and secure npm alternative

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install yarnpkg on Debian 10.

What is yarnpkg

yarnpkg is:

Fast: Yarnpkg caches every package it has downloaded, so it never needs to download the same package again. It also does almost everything concurrently to maximize resource utilization. This means even faster installs.

Reliable: Using a detailed but concise lockfile format and a deterministic algorithm for install operations, Yarnpkg is able to guarantee that any installation that works on one system will work exactly the same on another system.

Secure: Yarnpkg uses checksums to verify the integrity of every installed package before its code is executed.

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

There are three methods to install yarnpkg on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install yarnpkg Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install yarnpkg

Install yarnpkg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install yarnpkg using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install yarnpkg

Install yarnpkg 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 yarnpkg using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install yarnpkg

How To Uninstall yarnpkg on Debian 10

To uninstall only the yarnpkg package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove yarnpkg

Uninstall yarnpkg And Its Dependencies

To uninstall yarnpkg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove yarnpkg

Remove yarnpkg Configurations and Data

To remove yarnpkg configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge yarnpkg

Remove yarnpkg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge yarnpkg

Dependencies

yarnpkg have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install yarnpkg package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.