How To Install libruby on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libruby on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 v2.5).
There are three methods to install libruby on Ubuntu 18.04. 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 first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libruby
Remove libruby Configurations and Data
To remove libruby configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libruby package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
