fx is a powerful command-line tool that provides fancy and strictly formatted output of data from JSON logs. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install fx on Ubuntu Server Latest by following some simple steps.
Before starting with the installation process, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:
The first step is to make sure that the package repository is updated to the latest version. To do so, execute the following command:
sudo apt-get update
fx is built on Node.js, so we need to install Node.js and npm, the package manager for Node.js. Run the following command to install Node.js and npm:
sudo apt-get install nodejs npm
We will use npm to install fx. Run the following command to install fx:
sudo npm install -g fx
This will install fx globally on your system.
To verify that fx is installed correctly, run the following command:
fx -V
This command will output the version of fx. If you see the version number, then fx has been installed successfully.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install fx on Ubuntu Server Latest. With fx, you can easily format and visualize JSON data in a more human-friendly way.
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