How To Install ruby on Fedora 34

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby on Fedora 34.

What is ruby

Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible. ruby 3.0.2 149.fc34 x86_64 41 k ruby-3.0.2-149.fc34.src.rpm updates An interpreter of object-oriented scripting language https (Ruby or BSD) and Public Domain and MIT and CC0 and zlib and UCD Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible.

We can use yum or dnf to install ruby on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ruby.

Install ruby on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install ruby using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ruby

Install ruby on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install ruby using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ruby

How To Uninstall ruby on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove ruby

ruby Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/erb
/usr/bin/ruby-mri
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/00
/usr/lib/.build-id/00/e950bd230e9b2441616195f7d8e2f3333efae2
/usr/share/licenses/ruby
/usr/share/licenses/ruby/BSDL
/usr/share/licenses/ruby/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/ruby/COPYING.ja
/usr/share/licenses/ruby/GPL
/usr/share/licenses/ruby/LEGAL
/usr/share/man/man1/erb.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ruby.1.gz
/usr/bin/erb
/usr/bin/ruby-mri
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/36
/usr/lib/.build-id/36/a685e83648a32f492bf5418e05219e38f760a3
/usr/share/licenses/ruby
/usr/share/licenses/ruby/BSDL
/usr/share/licenses/ruby/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/ruby/COPYING.ja
/usr/share/licenses/ruby/GPL
/usr/share/licenses/ruby/LEGAL
/usr/share/man/man1/erb.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ruby.1.gz
/usr/bin/erb
/usr/bin/ruby-mri
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/9b4466b4e21a454371a072b1291c31afc6aba3
/usr/share/licenses/ruby
/usr/share/licenses/ruby/BSDL
/usr/share/licenses/ruby/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/ruby/COPYING.ja
/usr/share/licenses/ruby/GPL
/usr/share/licenses/ruby/LEGAL
/usr/share/man/man1/erb.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ruby.1.gz
/usr/bin/erb
/usr/bin/ruby-mri
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/be
/usr/lib/.build-id/be/7335ee65eafeaca0d6bd8c4125adb2cddc0386
/usr/share/licenses/ruby
/usr/share/licenses/ruby/BSDL
/usr/share/licenses/ruby/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/ruby/COPYING.ja
/usr/share/licenses/ruby/GPL
/usr/share/licenses/ruby/LEGAL
/usr/share/man/man1/erb.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ruby.1.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.