How To Install yarnpkg on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yarnpkg on Kali Linux.
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 Kali Linux. 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install yarnpkg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install yarnpkgInstall yarnpkg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install yarnpkg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install yarnpkgInstall yarnpkg Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install yarnpkg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install yarnpkgHow To Uninstall yarnpkg on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the yarnpkg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove yarnpkgUninstall yarnpkg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall yarnpkg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove yarnpkgRemove yarnpkg Configurations and Data
To remove yarnpkg configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge yarnpkgRemove 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 yarnpkgDependencies
yarnpkg have the following dependencies:
- ca-certificates
- node-asap
- node-babel7-runtime
- node-bytes
- node-camelcase
- node-chalk
- node-chownr
- node-ci-info
- node-cli-table
- node-commander
- node-death
- node-debug
- node-deep-equal
- node-detect-indent
- node-duplexify
- node-emoji
- node-fast-levenshtein
- node-glob
- node-imports-loader
- node-ini
- node-inquirer
- node-invariant
- node-is-builtin-module
- node-js-yaml
- node-loud-rejection
- node-micromatch
- node-minimatch
- node-mkdirp
- node-object-path
- node-path-root
- node-proper-lockfile
- node-puka
- node-pump
- node-pumpify
- node-read
- node-request
- node-request-capture-har
- node-resolve
- node-rimraf
- node-semver
- node-ssri
- node-strict-uri-encode
- node-strip-ansi
- node-strip-bom
- node-tar-stream
- node-uuid
- node-validate-npm-package-license
- node-yn
- nodejs
- node-prepend-http
- node-sort-keys
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yarnpkg package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.