How To Install ruby-amazon-ec2 on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-amazon-ec2 on Debian 9. ruby-amazon-ec2 is Ruby library for accessing Amazon EC2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-amazon-ec2 on Debian 9.

What is ruby-amazon-ec2

ruby-amazon-ec2 is:

A Ruby library for accessing the Amazon Web Services (AWS) APIs like:

  • Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): provides resizable compute capacity via virtual machine set up and allocation.
  • Autoscaling: automatically scale your Amazon EC2 capacity up or down
  • Elastic Load Balancing (ELB): distributes application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances
  • Relational Database Service (RDS): set up, operate, and scale MySQL instance
  • CloudWatch: provides monitoring for AWS like Amazon EC2.

There are three methods to install ruby-amazon-ec2 on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ruby-amazon-ec2 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install ruby-amazon-ec2 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-amazon-ec2

Install ruby-amazon-ec2 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ruby-amazon-ec2 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ruby-amazon-ec2

Install ruby-amazon-ec2 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install ruby-amazon-ec2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-amazon-ec2

How To Uninstall ruby-amazon-ec2 on Debian 9

To uninstall only the ruby-amazon-ec2 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ruby-amazon-ec2

Uninstall ruby-amazon-ec2 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ruby-amazon-ec2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-amazon-ec2

Remove ruby-amazon-ec2 Configurations and Data

To remove ruby-amazon-ec2 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-amazon-ec2

Remove ruby-amazon-ec2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ruby-amazon-ec2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-amazon-ec2

Dependencies

ruby-amazon-ec2 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-amazon-ec2 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.