How To Install node-minimist on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-minimist on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is node-minimist
node-minimist is:
Minimist is the guts of optimist’s argument parser without all the fanciful decoration.
Optimist is a light-weight node.js library for option parsing.
Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
There are three methods to install node-minimist 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 node-minimist 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-minimist using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-minimist
Install node-minimist Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-minimist using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-minimist
Install node-minimist 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 node-minimist using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-minimist
How To Uninstall node-minimist on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the node-minimist package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-minimist
Uninstall node-minimist And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-minimist and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-minimist
Remove node-minimist Configurations and Data
To remove node-minimist configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-minimist
Remove node-minimist configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-minimist configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-minimist
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-minimist package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
