How To Install ruby-gnome on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-gnome
on Debian 12.
What is ruby-gnome
ruby-gnome is:
These bindings allow use of the GNOME developer platform using the Ruby programming language.
This is an empty package that depends on the various packages that provide the individual bindings.
There are three methods to install ruby-gnome
on Debian 12. 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-gnome 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-gnome
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ruby-gnome
Install ruby-gnome Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-gnome
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ruby-gnome
Install ruby-gnome 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-gnome
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby-gnome
How To Uninstall ruby-gnome on Debian 12
To uninstall only the ruby-gnome
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ruby-gnome
Uninstall ruby-gnome And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ruby-gnome
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-gnome
Remove ruby-gnome Configurations and Data
To remove ruby-gnome
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-gnome
Remove ruby-gnome configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ruby-gnome
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-gnome
Dependencies
ruby-gnome have the following dependencies:
- ruby-atk
- ruby-cairo-gobject
- ruby-gdk-pixbuf2
- ruby-gdk3
- ruby-gio2
- ruby-gstreamer
- ruby-gtk3
- ruby-gtksourceview4
- ruby-pango
- ruby-poppler
- ruby-rsvg2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-gnome
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.