How To Install node-prismjs 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-prismjs on Ubuntu.
What is node-prismjs
node-prismjs is:
A spin-off project from Dabblet. Some of its unique features include:
- It’s tiny. The core is only 1.5KB minified & gzipped.
- It’s incredibly extensible. Not only it’s easy to add new languages, but also to extend existing ones.
- It encourages good author practices. Other highlighters encourage or even
force you to use elements that are semantically wrong, like
(on its own) or
<script>. Prism forces you to use the only semantically correct element for marking up code:. - One of its best features: The language definition is inherited. This means that if multiple code snippets have the same language, you can just define it once, in one of their common ancestors.
- It looks good. All three of its existing themes.
- It supports parallelism through Web Workers, for better performance in certain cases.
- It doesn’t force you to use any Prism-specific markup, not even a Prism-specific class name, only standard markup you should be using anyway.
Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.
There are three methods to install node-prismjs 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-prismjs 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-prismjs using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install node-prismjs
Install node-prismjs Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install node-prismjs using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install node-prismjs
Install node-prismjs 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-prismjs using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install node-prismjs
How To Uninstall node-prismjs on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the node-prismjs package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove node-prismjs
Uninstall node-prismjs And Its Dependencies
To uninstall node-prismjs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-prismjs
Remove node-prismjs Configurations and Data
To remove node-prismjs configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge node-prismjs
Remove node-prismjs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove node-prismjs configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-prismjs
Dependencies
node-prismjs have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install node-prismjs package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.