How To Install libruby2.5 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libruby2.5
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libruby2.5
libruby2.5 is:
Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible.
This package includes the ’libruby-2.5’ library, necessary to run Ruby 2.5. (API version 2.5.0)
There are three methods to install libruby2.5
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libruby2.5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libruby2.5
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libruby2.5
Install libruby2.5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libruby2.5
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libruby2.5
Install libruby2.5 Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libruby2.5
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libruby2.5
How To Uninstall libruby2.5 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libruby2.5
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libruby2.5
Uninstall libruby2.5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libruby2.5
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libruby2.5
Remove libruby2.5 Configurations and Data
To remove libruby2.5
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libruby2.5
Remove libruby2.5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libruby2.5
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libruby2.5
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libruby2.5
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.