How To Install passenger on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install passenger
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is passenger
passenger 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.
There are three methods to install passenger
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 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
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install passenger
Install passenger Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install passenger
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install passenger
Install passenger 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
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install passenger
How To Uninstall passenger on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the passenger
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove passenger
Uninstall passenger And Its Dependencies
To uninstall passenger
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove passenger
Remove passenger Configurations and Data
To remove passenger
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge passenger
Remove passenger configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove passenger
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge passenger
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install passenger
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.