How To Install ruby-webrobots on Debian 10

Learn how to install ruby-webrobots on Debian 10 with this tutorial. ruby-webrobots is Library for creating robots.txt-aware web robots

Introduction

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

What is ruby-webrobots

ruby-webrobots is:

This library helps write robots.txt-compliant web robots in Ruby, based on Nokogiri’s functionality.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-webrobots

Install ruby-webrobots Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ruby-webrobots

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

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-webrobots

How To Uninstall ruby-webrobots on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove ruby-webrobots

Uninstall ruby-webrobots And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-webrobots

Remove ruby-webrobots Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-webrobots

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

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

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

Dependencies

ruby-webrobots have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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