How To Install ruby-twitter on Debian 10

Learn how to install ruby-twitter on Debian 10 with this tutorial. ruby-twitter is Ruby interface to the Twitter API

Introduction

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

What is ruby-twitter

ruby-twitter is:

This ruby library provides a convenient access to the Twitter API. This provides comprehensive methods to access the API. This library needs only a registration of your application with Twitter. It uses OAuth protocol for interacting with Twitter API.

There are three methods to install ruby-twitter 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-twitter 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-twitter using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-twitter

Install ruby-twitter Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-twitter

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

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-twitter

How To Uninstall ruby-twitter on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-twitter

Uninstall ruby-twitter And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-twitter

Remove ruby-twitter Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-twitter

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

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

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

Dependencies

ruby-twitter have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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