How To Install ruby-ridley on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-ridley on Debian 9.
What is ruby-ridley
ruby-ridley is:
Ridley is a reliable and very convenient Chef client. Among its key features, it exposes a number of functions that return resources which they can be used to retrieve or create objects on a Chef server.
Ridley provides CRUD operations and search feature for the following Chef resources:
- Clients
- Cookbooks
- Data bags.
- Environments.
- Nodes.
- Roles.
- Sandboxes.
- Users.
There are three methods to install ruby-ridley 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-ridley 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-ridley using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ruby-ridley
Install ruby-ridley Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-ridley using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ruby-ridley
Install ruby-ridley 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-ridley using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby-ridley
How To Uninstall ruby-ridley on Debian 9
To uninstall only the ruby-ridley package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ruby-ridley
Uninstall ruby-ridley And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ruby-ridley and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-ridley
Remove ruby-ridley Configurations and Data
To remove ruby-ridley configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-ridley
Remove ruby-ridley configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ruby-ridley configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-ridley
Dependencies
ruby-ridley have the following dependencies:
- ruby
- ruby-addressable
- ruby-buff-config
- ruby-buff-extensions
- ruby-buff-ignore
- ruby-buff-shell-out
- ruby-celluloid
- ruby-celluloid-io
- ruby-chef-config
- ruby-erubis
- ruby-faraday
- ruby-hashie
- ruby-httpclient
- ruby-json
- ruby-mixlib-authentication
- ruby-retryable
- ruby-semverse
- ruby-varia-model
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-ridley package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
