node-gyp on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: July 20,2022

1. Install node-gyp package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install node-gyp package:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install node-gyp

2. Uninstall / Remove node-gyp package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall node-gyp package:

sudo apt remove node-gyp

sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Details of node-gyp package

Package: node-gyp

Priority: extra

Section: universe/web

Installed-Size: 87

Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers 

Original-Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers 

Architecture: all

Version: 3.0.3-2ubuntu1

Depends: nodejs, nodejs-dev, gyp (>= 0.1+20150913git1f374df9), node-fstream, node-glob, node-graceful-fs (>= 2), node-minimatch, node-mkdirp, node-nopt (>= 2), node-npmlog, node-osenv, node-request, node-rimraf, node-semver (>= 2.1), node-tar, node-which

Recommends: build-essential

Filename: pool/universe/n/node-gyp/node-gyp_3.0.3-2ubuntu1_all.deb

Size: 23202

MD5sum: de9ceb9abf491ee6750d010221875fc4

SHA1: 242709547b7e851cdd33aa8a9512791096e75343

SHA256: 6995012cde74e05d32357068a65ed9d3a0e640d493bb4e848e078a5cf5004322

Description-en: Native addon build tool for Node.js

 node-gyp is a cross-platform command-line tool written in Node.js

 for compiling native addon modules for Node.js.

 .

 It features :

  * Easy to use, consistent interface

  * Same commands to build a module on every platform

  * Support of multiple target versions of Node.js

 .

 node-gyp replaces node-waf program which was deprecated in Node.js 0.8

 and removed since Node.js 0.10.

 .

 Node.js is an event-based server-side javascript engine.

Description-md5: 79e000d65d6679894607853135417a5f

Homepage: https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp

Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug

Origin: Ubuntu