How To Install ruby-stamp on Debian 10

Learn how to install ruby-stamp on Debian 10 with this tutorial. ruby-stamp is date and time formatting for humans

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-stamp on Debian 10.

What is ruby-stamp

ruby-stamp is:

Stamp is a Ruby library that formats dates and times based on human-friendly examples, not arcane strftime directives. Give it an example date string with whatever month, day, year and weekday parts you’d like, and your date will be formatted accordingly.

There are three methods to install ruby-stamp on Debian 10. 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-stamp 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-stamp using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-stamp

Install ruby-stamp Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-stamp

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

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-stamp

How To Uninstall ruby-stamp on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-stamp

Uninstall ruby-stamp And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ruby-stamp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-stamp

Remove ruby-stamp Configurations and Data

To remove ruby-stamp configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-stamp

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

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

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

Dependencies

ruby-stamp have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-stamp package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.