How To Install ruby-cheffish on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-cheffish on Ubuntu 20.04. ruby-cheffish is library to manipulate Chef in Chef

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-cheffish on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is ruby-cheffish

ruby-cheffish is:

Cheffish provides a variety of convergent resources for interacting with the Chef Server; along the way, it happens to provide some very useful and sophisticated ways of running Chef resources as recipes in RSpec examples. Ruby-Versions: all

There are three methods to install ruby-cheffish on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ruby-cheffish 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-cheffish using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-cheffish

Install ruby-cheffish Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-cheffish

Install ruby-cheffish 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 ruby-cheffish using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-cheffish

How To Uninstall ruby-cheffish on Ubuntu 20.04

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-cheffish

Uninstall ruby-cheffish And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ruby-cheffish and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-cheffish

Remove ruby-cheffish Configurations and Data

To remove ruby-cheffish configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-cheffish

Remove ruby-cheffish configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-cheffish

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-cheffish package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.