How To Install rainbows on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rainbows on Debian 9.
What is rainbows
rainbows is:
Rainbows! is an HTTP server for sleepy Rack applications. It is based on Unicorn, but designed to handle applications that expect long request/response times and/or slow clients.
There are three methods to install rainbows on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install rainbows Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install rainbows using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rainbows
Install rainbows Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rainbows using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rainbows
Install rainbows 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install rainbows using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rainbows
How To Uninstall rainbows on Debian 9
To uninstall only the rainbows package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rainbows
Uninstall rainbows And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rainbows and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rainbows
Remove rainbows Configurations and Data
To remove rainbows configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rainbows
Remove rainbows configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rainbows configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rainbows
Dependencies
rainbows have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rainbows package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.