How to Install Bower on Ubuntu

Bower is a bundled supervisor for the web and offers a conventional technique for the drawbacks in entrance-finish package management. It basically maintains and monitors all packages and examines new updates. Bower also makes use of a take place file called bower.Json to keep track of applications. This article explains about -“How to install bower on Ubuntu”.

To install bower, we require pre-installed Node.js and NPM. To verify the node.js version, use the following command-

$ node -v

The sample output should be like this-

v6.9.2

To verify the NPM version, use the following command

$ npm -v

The sample output should be like this-

3.10.9

If you wants to install Node.js and NPM, read this article

To install bower, use the following command –

$ sudo npm install -g bower

The sample output should be like this –

/usr/bin/bower -> /usr/lib/node_modules/bower/bin/bower /usr/lib `-- bower@1.8.0

To get more information about bower, use the following command –

Usage:    bower [] [] Commands:    cache           Manage bower cache    help           Display help information about Bower    home           Opens a package homepage into your favorite browser    info           Info of a particular package    init           Interactively create a bower.json file    install           Install a package locally    link           Symlink a package folder    list           List local packages - and possible updates    login           Authenticate with GitHub and store credentials    lookup       Look up a single package URL by name    prune           Removes local extraneous packages    register       Register a package    search           Search for packages by name    update           Update a local package    uninstall       Remove a local package    unregister       Remove a package from the registry    version           Bump a package version Options:    -f, --force            Makes various commands more forceful    -j, --json             Output consumable JSON    -l, --loglevel         What level of logs to report    -o, --offline          Do not hit the network    -q, --quiet            Only output important information    -s, --silent           Do not output anything, besides errors    -V, --verbose          Makes output more verbose    --allow-root           Allows running commands as root    -v, --version          Output Bower version    --no-color             Disable colors See 'bower help ' for more information on a specific command.

To install bootstrap with bower, use the following command –

$ bower install git://github.com/twbs/bootstrap

The sample output should be like this –

bower not-cached       git://github.com/twbs/bootstrap.git#* bower resolve          git://github.com/twbs/bootstrap.git#* bower download          https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/archive/v3.3.7.tar.gz bower progress          bootstrap#* received 0.1MB of 4.0MB downloaded, 3% bower progress          bootstrap#* received 0.2MB of 4.0MB downloaded, 4% bower progress          bootstrap#* received 0.2MB of 4.0MB downloaded, 4% bower progress          bootstrap#* received 0.2MB of 4.0MB downloaded, 5% bower progress          bootstrap#* received 0.2MB of 4.0MB downloaded, 5% bower progress          bootstrap#* received 0.2MB of 4.0MB downloaded, 6% bower progress          bootstrap#* received 0.3MB of 4.0MB downloaded, 6% bower progress          bootstrap#* received 0.3MB of 4.0MB downloaded, 7% .....................................................................

After this article, you will be able to understand how to Install Bower on Ubuntu . In our next articles, we will come up with more Linux based tricks and tips. Keep reading!