How to Install and Uninstall node-gyp Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: November 23,2024

You can also install and uninstall the node-gyp on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

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1. Install "node-gyp" package

This guide let you learn how to install node-gyp on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "node-gyp" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall node-gyp on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the node-gyp package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: node-gyp
Version: 9.3.0-2
Installed-Size: 156
Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers
Architecture: all
Provides: node-node-gyp (= 9.3.0-2)
Depends: gyp (>= 0.1+20200513gitcaa6002), libnode-dev, node-glob, node-graceful-fs, node-https-proxy-agent, node-mkdirp, node-fetch, node-nopt, node-npmlog, node-osenv, node-rimraf, node-semver (>= 7), node-tar, node-which, nodejs:any
Recommends: build-essential
Description: Native addon build tool for Node.js
Description-md5: 9504a6e103c40d9c3dcd703bb54d5b8a
Homepage: https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp
Section: javascript
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/n/node-gyp/node-gyp_9.3.0-2_all.deb
Size: 57944
MD5sum: df8c00767c020585db737941dcd3bc5f
SHA256: d0cd2128fab5a21df3d74717281981918a49e65f6b6826b32650ec4235118555