How to Install and Uninstall node-ws Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 20,2024

1. Install "node-ws" package

This tutorial shows how to install node-ws on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Please follow the steps below to uninstall node-ws on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                node-ws
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the node-ws package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: node-ws
Priority: extra
Section: universe/web
Installed-Size: 201
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.0.1+ds1.e6ddaae4-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), nodejs, node-commander, node-nan (>= 2.0.5), node-tinycolor
Filename: pool/universe/n/node-ws/node-ws_1.0.1+ds1.e6ddaae4-1_amd64.deb
Size: 42196
MD5sum: 9c8aec94f3bde69a7a198660caca528c
SHA1: 90c75b07917904ec0d3b724993d258540de88ebe
SHA256: 1925c1de2ad06e807a2232f4c032893915f28c1d4b8a7b3228739c888db85b68
Description-en: RFC-6455 WebSocket implementation module for Node.js
ws is a simple to use websocket implementation, up-to-date against RFC-6455,
and probably the fastest WebSocket library for Node.js.
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Passes the quite extensive Autobahn test suite. See
http://einaros.github.com/ws for the full reports.
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It also provides wscat, a command-line tool which can either act
as a server or a client, and is useful for debugging websocket services.
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Node.js is an event-based server-side javascript engine.
Description-md5: 5a19837e0b9c362ba5687c4cf1eb0560
Homepage: https://github.com/websockets/ws
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu