How To Install ruby-builder on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-builder on Debian 10.
What is ruby-builder
ruby-builder is:
Builder is a library that allows easy programmatic creation of XML markup. It gives you a Ruby API to build structures and methods to dump it to XML. Some of the features:
- Easy generation by mapping method calls to elements, arguments to attributes and blocks to contents.
- XML comment & processing instruction support.
- XML entity declaration support.
- Some support for XML namespaces.
- Default escaping of string attribute values.
- UTF-8 support.
There are three methods to install ruby-builder on Debian 10. 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-builder 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-builder using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ruby-builder
Install ruby-builder Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-builder using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ruby-builder
Install ruby-builder 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-builder using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby-builder
How To Uninstall ruby-builder on Debian 10
To uninstall only the ruby-builder package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ruby-builder
Uninstall ruby-builder And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ruby-builder and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-builder
Remove ruby-builder Configurations and Data
To remove ruby-builder configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-builder
Remove ruby-builder configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ruby-builder configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-builder
Dependencies
ruby-builder have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-builder package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
