How To Install gulp on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gulp on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is gulp
gulp is:
gulp is a toolkit that helps you automate painful or time-consuming tasks in your development workflow.
Platform-agnostic - Integrations are built into all major IDEs and people are using gulp with PHP, .NET, Node.js, Java, and other platforms. Strong Ecosystem - Use npm modules to do anything you want + over 2000 curated plugins for streaming file transformations Simple - By providing only a minimal API surface, gulp is easy to learn and simple to use
Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
There are three methods to install gulp on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gulp Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gulp using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gulp
Install gulp Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gulp using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gulp
Install gulp 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 gulp using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gulp
How To Uninstall gulp on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the gulp package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gulp
Uninstall gulp And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gulp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gulp
Remove gulp Configurations and Data
To remove gulp configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gulp
Remove gulp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gulp configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gulp
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gulp package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
