How To Install node-fast-levenshtein 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 node-fast-levenshtein on Ubuntu.
What is node-fast-levenshtein
node-fast-levenshtein is:
In information theory, linguistics, and computer science, the Levenshtein distance is a string metric for measuring the difference between two sequences. Informally, the Levenshtein distance between two words is the minimum number of single-character edits (insertions, deletions or substitutions) required to change one word into the other.
This is pure JavaScript implementation for Node.js.
Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
There are three methods to install node-fast-levenshtein 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 node-fast-levenshtein 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-fast-levenshtein using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-fast-levenshtein
Install node-fast-levenshtein Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-fast-levenshtein using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-fast-levenshtein
Install node-fast-levenshtein 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-fast-levenshtein using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-fast-levenshtein
How To Uninstall node-fast-levenshtein on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the node-fast-levenshtein package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-fast-levenshtein
Uninstall node-fast-levenshtein And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-fast-levenshtein and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-fast-levenshtein
Remove node-fast-levenshtein Configurations and Data
To remove node-fast-levenshtein configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-fast-levenshtein
Remove node-fast-levenshtein configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-fast-levenshtein configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-fast-levenshtein
Dependencies
node-fast-levenshtein have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-fast-levenshtein package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.