How To Install ruby-jquery-turbolinks on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-jquery-turbolinks on Debian 9. ruby-jquery-turbolinks is fix for binded events problem caused by Turbolinks

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-jquery-turbolinks on Debian 9.

ruby-jquery-turbolinks is:

jQuery plugin for drop-in fix for binded events problem caused by Turbolinks

Do you like Turbolinks? It’s easy and fast way to improve user experience of surfing on your website.

But if you have a large codebase with lots of $(el).bind(...) Turbolinks will surprise you. Most part of your JavaScripts will stop working in usual way. It’s because the nodes on which you bind events no longer exist.

This library solves that problem. Learn more at /usr/share/doc/ruby-jquery-turbolinks/README.md.gz

There are three methods to install ruby-jquery-turbolinks 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.

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-jquery-turbolinks

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-jquery-turbolinks

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-jquery-turbolinks using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-jquery-turbolinks

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-jquery-turbolinks

To uninstall ruby-jquery-turbolinks and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-jquery-turbolinks

To remove ruby-jquery-turbolinks configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-jquery-turbolinks

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-jquery-turbolinks

Dependencies

ruby-jquery-turbolinks have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-jquery-turbolinks package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.