How To Install ruby-gnome2 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-gnome2
on Debian 9.
What is ruby-gnome2
ruby-gnome2 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-gnome2
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-gnome2 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-gnome2
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ruby-gnome2
Install ruby-gnome2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-gnome2
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ruby-gnome2
Install ruby-gnome2 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-gnome2
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby-gnome2
How To Uninstall ruby-gnome2 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the ruby-gnome2
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ruby-gnome2
Uninstall ruby-gnome2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ruby-gnome2
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-gnome2
Remove ruby-gnome2 Configurations and Data
To remove ruby-gnome2
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-gnome2
Remove ruby-gnome2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ruby-gnome2
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-gnome2
Dependencies
ruby-gnome2 have the following dependencies:
- ruby-atk
- ruby-cairo-gobject
- ruby-gdk-pixbuf2
- ruby-gdk3
- ruby-gio2
- ruby-gstreamer
- ruby-gtk3
- ruby-gtksourceview2
- ruby-gtksourceview3
- ruby-pango
- ruby-poppler
- ruby-rsvg2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-gnome2
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.