How To Install reel on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install reel on Debian 9. reel is Celluloid

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install reel on Debian 9.

What is reel

reel is:

Reel is a fast, non-blocking “evented” web server built on http_parser.rb, websocket_parser, Celluloid::IO, and nio4r. Thanks to Celluloid, Reel also works great for multithreaded applications and provides traditional multithreaded blocking I/O support too.

Connections to Reel can be either non-blocking and handled entirely within the Reel::Server thread (handling HTTP, HTTPS, or UNIX sockets), or the same connections can be dispatched to worker threads where they will perform ordinary blocking IO. Reel provides no built-in thread pool, however you can build one yourself using Celluloid.pool, or because Celluloid already pools threads to begin with, you can simply use an actor per connection.

There are three methods to install reel 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 reel Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install reel

Install reel Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install reel

Install reel 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 reel using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install reel

How To Uninstall reel on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove reel

Uninstall reel And Its Dependencies

To uninstall reel and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove reel

Remove reel Configurations and Data

To remove reel configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge reel

Remove reel configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge reel

Dependencies

reel have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install reel package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.