How To Install passenger-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install passenger-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. passenger-doc is Rails and Rack support for Apache2 - Documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install passenger-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is passenger-doc

passenger-doc is:

Phusion Passenger — a.k.a. mod_rails or mod_rack — makes deployment of Ruby web applications, such as those built on the revolutionary Ruby on Rails web framework, a breeze.

This package provides the documentation for Phusion Passenger.

There are three methods to install passenger-doc 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 passenger-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install passenger-doc

Install passenger-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install passenger-doc

Install passenger-doc 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 passenger-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install passenger-doc

How To Uninstall passenger-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the passenger-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove passenger-doc

Uninstall passenger-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall passenger-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove passenger-doc

Remove passenger-doc Configurations and Data

To remove passenger-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge passenger-doc

Remove passenger-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge passenger-doc

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install passenger-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.