How To Install libruby on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libruby on Kali Linux.

What is libruby

libruby is:

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.

This package includes the ’libruby’ library, necessary to run Ruby.

This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian’s default Ruby version (currently v2.7).

There are three methods to install libruby on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libruby Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libruby

Install libruby Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libruby using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libruby

Install libruby Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libruby using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libruby

How To Uninstall libruby on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove libruby

Uninstall libruby And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libruby and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libruby

Remove libruby Configurations and Data

To remove libruby configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libruby

Remove libruby configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libruby

Dependencies

libruby have the following dependencies:

• libruby2.7

References

• libruby website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libruby package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.