How To Install ruby-amazon-ec2 on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-amazon-ec2 on Debian 12.
What is ruby-amazon-ec2
ruby-amazon-ec2 is:
A Ruby library for accessing the Amazon Web Services (AWS) APIs like:
- Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): provides resizable compute capacity via virtual machine set up and allocation.
- Autoscaling: automatically scale your Amazon EC2 capacity up or down
- Elastic Load Balancing (ELB): distributes application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances
- Relational Database Service (RDS): set up, operate, and scale MySQL instance
- CloudWatch: provides monitoring for AWS like Amazon EC2.
There are three methods to install ruby-amazon-ec2 on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ruby-amazon-ec2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-amazon-ec2 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ruby-amazon-ec2
Install ruby-amazon-ec2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-amazon-ec2 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ruby-amazon-ec2
Install ruby-amazon-ec2 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 ruby-amazon-ec2 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby-amazon-ec2
How To Uninstall ruby-amazon-ec2 on Debian 12
To uninstall only the ruby-amazon-ec2 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ruby-amazon-ec2
Uninstall ruby-amazon-ec2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ruby-amazon-ec2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-amazon-ec2
Remove ruby-amazon-ec2 Configurations and Data
To remove ruby-amazon-ec2 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-amazon-ec2
Remove ruby-amazon-ec2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ruby-amazon-ec2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-amazon-ec2
Dependencies
ruby-amazon-ec2 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-amazon-ec2 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
