How To Install ruby-twitter-text on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-twitter-text on Debian 9. ruby-twitter-text is library that does auto linking and extraction items in tweets

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-twitter-text on Debian 9.

What is ruby-twitter-text

ruby-twitter-text is:

This library provides text processing routines for Twitter Tweets. The major reason for this is to unify the various auto-linking and extraction of usernames, lists, hashtags and URLs.

Learn more about its usage at /usr/share/doc/ruby-twitter-text/README.rdoc

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-twitter-text

Install ruby-twitter-text Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-twitter-text

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

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-twitter-text

How To Uninstall ruby-twitter-text on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-twitter-text

Uninstall ruby-twitter-text And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove ruby-twitter-text Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

ruby-twitter-text have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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