How To Install minify on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install minify on Ubuntu.
What is minify
minify is:
/usr/bin/minify is a CLI implementation of the github.com/tdewolff/minify Go library package.
It provides HTML5, CSS3, JS, JSON, SVG and XML minifiers.
Minification is the process of removing bytes from a file (such as whitespace) without changing its output and therefore shrinking its size and speeding up transmission over the Internet and possibly parsing. The implemented minifiers are high performance and streaming, which implies O(n).
There are three methods to install minify on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install minify Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install minify using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install minify
Install minify Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install minify using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install minify
Install minify 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 minify using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install minify
How To Uninstall minify on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the minify package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove minify
Uninstall minify And Its Dependencies
To uninstall minify and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove minify
Remove minify Configurations and Data
To remove minify configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge minify
Remove minify configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove minify configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge minify
Dependencies
minify have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install minify package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.