How To Install ruby-htmlentities on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-htmlentities on Debian 11. ruby-htmlentities is Ruby library for handling HTML entities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-htmlentities on Debian 11.

What is ruby-htmlentities

ruby-htmlentities is:

HTMLEntities is a simple library to facilitate encoding and decoding of named (ý and so on) or numerical ({ or Ī) entities in HTML and XHTML documents.

There are three methods to install ruby-htmlentities on Debian 11. 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-htmlentities 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-htmlentities using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-htmlentities

Install ruby-htmlentities Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-htmlentities

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

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-htmlentities

How To Uninstall ruby-htmlentities on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-htmlentities

Uninstall ruby-htmlentities And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ruby-htmlentities and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-htmlentities

Remove ruby-htmlentities Configurations and Data

To remove ruby-htmlentities configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-htmlentities

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

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

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

Dependencies

ruby-htmlentities have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-htmlentities package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.